NEAR INFRARED IMAGING FOR SUBCUTANEOUS VEINS LOCALIZATION USING WEARABLE OPTICAL IMAGING DEVICE

Intravenous (IV) catheterization is a basic need for medical treatment. Skilled trained
medical practices such as doctor, nurse or even paramedic need to learn as this their
basic knowledge. To perform this treatment, they need to locate veins they can get by
visual or feel it with their fingers. This technique has its own downside as sometimes
different patient have differ skin tone and deepness of their veins. Sometimes patients
also get scars or even some of them have thick hair. To attempt venipuncture,
sometimes they need to repeat it two or three times if it does not succeed. This is due to
non-visibility to locate patient’s veins. This may result severe pain to the patient and
leave a bigger impact to their health. These inaccurate catheter insertions need to be
overcome with a device that can help medical practitioners to locate veins from patients
easily and fast for venipuncture process. Today’s technology give human to look
through human’s body but non of them have a capability to locate and display
subcutaneous veins structure right in front of their eyes for a user to perform iv
catheterization process. In this project, near infrared (NIR) imaging technique will be
choose as it has several advantages in compared to the other technique