How to get an affordable respiration rate for the home lab of Physiologist Peter Gamma which is at the level of his professional medical & research grade education?

Last Updated on March 31, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

We have Peter Charltons Matlab respiratory rate estimation toolbox:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/55289-respiratory-rate-estimation

  • Is this not at the Sensors (Basel) level, which is not medical and research grade?

PLUXBiosignals respiration belt

  • Is this not at the Sensors (Basel) level as well, which is not medical and research grade?

Vernier Spirometers:

https://www.vernier.com/product-category/?category=spirometers

  • Vernier says: «Educational use only: Vernier products are designed for educational use.
  • They are not appropriate for industrial, medical, or commercial applications.»

iWorx Spirometer:

  • But again the software alone is around 1 000 USD.
  • And what for instance BIOSIGNALS PLUX can with their respiration toolbox, Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org can do this as well if he has enough time for it.
  • Eventually it is worth testing a combination of several devices to get more accuate data as for instanc with ECG. To get gold standard for ECG it requires a 3 channel device which means we need signals from 3 channels. Why not try the same with respiration sensors?

But unfortunately Peter Gamma still hasn’t found an affordable device to measure respiration rate for the home lab of Peter Gamma which is at the level of his professional education which is medical and research grade. So he has to build it by himself. But from which soft- and hardware components? If you know it write it in the comments below.