Pulse Oximetry: 50 Years of Inventions & Discoveries in Biomedical Optics

Affiliations

¹ Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
² Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
³ University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
⁴ Amsterdam University Medical Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering, Department of Medical Physics, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

Editorial

Jana M Kainerstorfer et al. J Biomed Opt. 2024 Jun.

. 2024 Jun;29(Suppl 3):S33301.

doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.29.S3.S33301. Epub 2025 Jan 7.

¹ Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
² Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
³ University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
⁴ Amsterdam University Medical Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering, Department of Medical Physics, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

Abstract

The editorial introduces the JBO Special Issue on Pulse Oximetry.

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