Wearable, Ultra-thin Film Maps Blood Flow Underneath Skin (7 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Wearable, Ultra-thin Film Maps Blood Flow Underneath Skin (7 of 7)

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A 3-D rendering of the epidermal device placed on skin above a blood vessel. The soft, stretchable epidermal device laminates onto skin like a temporary tattoo to perform non-invasive, real-time mapping of blood flow changes beneath the skin. Inset graphs show data captured by the device as blood flow change over time (right) and blood flow maps (left). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 30, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.C. Webb at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL, and colleagues was titled, 'Epidermal devices for noninvasive, precise, and continuous mapping of macrovascular and microvascular blood flow.'

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[Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Beckman Institute]

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