The invention concerns an arrangement for determining the concentration of
glucose in a tissue fluid. In the microdialysis technology used for this
purpose, perfusate-containing glucose is transported in intermittent
delivery pulses through a microdialysis probe inserted into the tissue
fluid and dialysate obtained in this process is passed to a measuring
cell to record the glucose content. In order to achieve an exact
determination of glucose even with a reduced dialysis period, it is
proposed that the starting content of glucose in the perfusate is adapted
to the glucose content of the tissue fluid by means of a control device
in accordance with a command variable derived from the measurement
signals of the measuring cell. When the control deviation is negligible
the momentary starting content of glucose in the perfusate can be
determined as a measure for the glucose content of the tissue fluid.