UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Ana Claudia Arias is using printers to develop novel medical devices with electronics that are thin and flexible. Devices include a pulse oximeter the size of a Band-Aid and blanket-like MRI coils for children.
Electronics 'like a second skin' make wearables more practical and MRIs safer for kids
The UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium is funded by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Office of Orphan Products Development under grant no. P50FD007967.
