Multifunctional skin-like electronics for quantitative, clinical monitoring of cutaneous wound healing.

ABSTRACT: Non-invasive, biomedical devices have the potential to provide important, quantitative data for the assessment of skin diseases and wound healing. Traditional methods either rely on qualitative visual and tactile judgments of a professional and/or data obtained using instrumentation with forms that do not readily allow intimate integration with sensitive skin near a wound site. Here, an electronic sensor platform that can softly and reversibly laminate perilesionally at wounds to provide highly accurate, quantitative data of relevance to the management of surgical wound healing is reported. Clinical studies on patients using thermal sensors and actuators in fractal layouts provide precise time-dependent mapping of temperature and thermal conductivity of the skin near the wounds. Analytical

SUBMITTER: Hattori Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4177017 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature