Physical Performance Monitoring and Monitors
AssigneeUniversity of Massachusetts
InventorBabs R. Soller
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Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for determining an anaerobic threshold and/or an oxygen consumption rate in a human or animal subject. The methods include exposing a tissue of the subject to illumination radiation, collecting emitted radiation from the tissue, the emitted radiation including a portion of the illumination radiation reflected or transmitted from the tissue, processing the emitted radiation to form a spectrum of the tissue, and determining, based on the spectrum of the tissue, the anaerobic threshold and/or the oxygen consumption rate of the subject.
Claims30
A method of determining an anaerobic threshold of a human or animal subject, the method comprising:
- exposing a tissue of the subject to illumination radiation;
- collecting emitted radiation from the tissue, the emitted radiation comprising a portion of the illumination radiation reflected or transmitted from the tissue;
- processing the emitted radiation to form a spectrum of the tissue;
- and
- determining, based on the spectrum of the tissue, an anaerobic threshold of the subject.
A method of determining an oxygen consumption rate of a human or animal subject, the method comprising:
- exposing a tissue of the subject to illumination radiation;
- collecting emitted radiation from the tissue, the emitted radiation comprising a portion of the illumination radiation reflected or transmitted from the tissue;
- processing the emitted radiation to form a spectrum of the tissue;
- and
- determining, based on the spectrum of the tissue, an oxygen consumption rate of the subject.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a spectrometer configured to detect light emitted from a tissue of a human or animal subject, and to determine a spectrum of the tissue from the detected light;
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- an electronic processor coupled to the spectrometer and configured to determine, based on the spectrum of the tissue, at least one of an oxygen consumption rate and an anaerobic threshold of the subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.