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Articlenpj biomedical innovations2025

Wearable battery-free chip-less patch for bioimpedance measurement of cutaneous lesions.

Hina Imtiaz, Ellaine Ray, Enosh Lim, Mansour Tahernezhadi, Mohammad J Moghimi

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Article in npj biomedical innovations, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hina ImtiazDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA.
Ellaine RayDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL USA.
Enosh LimDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA.
Mansour TahernezhadiDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL USA.
Mohammad J MoghimiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA.

Funding

Evaluation of micro-epidermal actuators on flexible substrate for noninvasive, pediatric-friendly conductive hearing aidR21DC018894 · NIDCD · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MOGHIMI, MOHAMMAD JAVAD · 2021 to 2023
$437k
NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC018894
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma is an invasive type of skin cancer that may metastasize and cause death. Early identification and timely management of melanoma significantly increase the chance of successful treatment and reduce the mortality rate. Visual inspection of pigmented lesions is not objective, often necessitating additional diagnostic procedures such as dermoscopy, reflectance confocal microscopy and biopsy. Here, we developed a wireless, battery-free, chip-less patch that non-invasively measures bio-impedance of lesions and suspicious parts of skin to melanoma as a complementary, nonvisual, wearable device. The patch, in conjunction with personal electronics, can detect abnormal bioimpedances that are associated with the risk of melanoma and alert the need for medical consultation in the early stage of development. Our analytical and experimental results as well as a pilot human subject study showed that the wearable patch identified the difference in bioimpedance of pigmented lesions and healthy tissues on skin for early assessment of lesions.

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BiomarkersCancerDiagnostic markersDiseasesMedical researchMelanomaSkin cancerTranslational research

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PMID41048873
PMCPMC12494495

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