Figure 1
The technique used by the new non-invasive device, AJO-Neo to collect information about bilirubin from the neonatal nail bed. A probe consisting of six illumination fibers and one collection fiber is placed perpendicular to the thumbnail plate as described in our previous study (Ref.18). The illumination fiber is connected to the light source i.e., halogen and collection fiber is connected to the detector. Illumination fiber illuminates the sublingual arcade below the nail plate with a particular light dose, collection fiber collects the reflected light (which carries the information from the blood) and carries it to the spectroscopic detector. Indigenously designed program analyses the data, compute the bilirubin level, and displays the value in the monitor.
