Wearable, Ultra-thin Film Maps Blood Flow Underneath Skin (4 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Wearable, Ultra-thin Film Maps Blood Flow Underneath Skin (4 of 7)

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An infrared thermal image of the epidermal device as it monitors blood flow changes that occur on a fingertip. The central actuating element, which is undetectable by the user and appears as a white spot in the center of the epidermal device, allows for the non-invasive monitoring of blood flow by monitoring minute changes in spatial distributions of temperature. 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]

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