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SUBMITTER: Ramirez J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286678 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramírez Julian J Rodriquez Daniel D Qiao Fang F Warchall Julian J Rye Jasmine J Aklile Eden E S-C Chiang Andrew A Marin Brandon C BC Mercier Patrick P PP Cheng C K CK Hutcheson Katherine A KA Shinn Eileen H EH Lipomi Darren J DJ
ACS nano 20180608 6
There is a need to monitor patients with cancer of the head and neck postradiation therapy, as diminished swallowing activity can result in disuse atrophy and fibrosis of the swallowing muscles. This paper describes a flexible strain sensor comprising palladium nanoislands on single-layer graphene. These piezoresistive sensors were tested on 14 disease-free head and neck cancer patients with various levels of swallowing function: from nondysphagic to severely dysphagic. The patch-like devices de ...[more]