Abstract
People with transtibial limb loss experience daily changes in volume of their residual limb that affect the fit of their prosthetic socket. A portable instrument was developed to monitor fluid volume changes outside of the laboratory setting. The bioimpedance system applied 26 current bursts per second at frequencies between 3 kHz and 1 MHz, and sensed voltage at up to six channels. Among six voltage-controlled current source circuits and five receive-channel amplifier topologies considered, a differential Howland current pump and a single receive-channel instrumentation amplifier proved the best combination of low noise and low power consumption. Mean RMS errors were 0.07% for extracellular fluid resistance, 2.23% for intracellular fluid resistance, and 1.15% for membrane capacitance.
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