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Engineers have developed a wearable soft and stretchy ultrasound patch that can offer continuous, non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the brain
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that can offer continuous, non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the brain. The soft and stretchy patch can be comfortably worn on the temple to provide three-dimensional data on cerebral blood flow—a first in wearable technology.
“The continuous monitoring capability of the patch addresses a critical gap in current clinical practices,” said study co-first author Sai Zhou, a materials science and engineering Ph.D. candidate in Xu’s lab. Patients who are undergoing and recovering from brain surgery can also benefit from this technology, noted Geonho Park, another co-first author of this study who is a chemical and nano engineering Ph.D. student in Xu’s lab. You need a device capable of capturing this three-dimensional information to get the whole picture and obtain more accurate measurements,” said Xinyi Yang, another co-first author of this study and materials science and engineering Ph.D. student in Xu’s lab.
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