Wearable nanosensor systems and their applications in healthcare

Mouli Ramasamy; Prashanth Shyam Kumar; Vijay K. Varadan

doi:10.1117/12.2264812

24 April 2017 Wearable nanosensor systems and their applications in healthcare

Mouli Ramasamy, Prashanth Shyam Kumar, Vijay K. Varadan

Proceedings Volume 10167, Nanosensors, Biosensors, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems 2017; 1016703 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2264812
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2017, Portland, Oregon, United States

Abstract

The development of intelligent miniaturized nano-bio-and info-tech based sensors capable of wireless communication will fundamentally change the way we monitor and treat patients with chronic disease and after surgery. These new sensors will allow the monitoring of the patients as they maintain their normal daily activities, and provide warning to healthcare workers when critical events arise. This will facilitate early discharge of patients from hospitals as well as providing reassurance to patients and family that potential problems will be detected at an early stage. The use of continuous monitoring allows both transient and progressive abnormalities to be reliably detected thus avoiding the problems of conventional diagnosis and monitoring methods where by data is captured only for a brief period during hospital/clinic visits. We have been working with a printable organic semiconductor and thin film transistor, and have fabricated and tested various biosensors that can measure important physiological signs before and after surgery. Integrated into "smart" fabrics - garments with wireless technology – and independent e-bandaid sensors, nanosensors in tattoos and socks, minimally invasive implantable devices, the sensor systems will be able to monitor a patient's condition in real time and thus provide point-of-care diagnostics to health-care professionals and greater freedom for patients.

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Mouli Ramasamy, Prashanth Shyam Kumar, and Vijay K. Varadan "Wearable nanosensor systems and their applications in healthcare", Proc. SPIE 10167, Nanosensors, Biosensors, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems 2017, 1016703 (24 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2264812

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