Studies on calibration of infant phototherapy incubator

Infant phototherapy incubator is widely used in medical institutions to reduce the concentration of bilirubin in the body of infant while maintaining the body temperature of the infant. This article presents a novel design of calibration procedure to measure the instruments’ metrological parameters such as "error of total irradiance for bilirubin after pre-ageing", "relative local distribution of total irradiance for bilirubin after pre-ageing", "uniformity of incubator temperature", "accuracy of skin temperature sensor", "relative humidity indication error" and "accuracy of oxygen sensor" in order to ensure the accuracy and reliability of infant phototherapy incubator. The experimental results show that the calibration procedure presented in this article can ensure the metrological traceability of infant phototherapy incubators in daily use.