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Bioresorbable spectrometers

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Needle-sized photonic devices that slowly dissolve in the body can spectroscopically characterize cerebral temperature, blood oxygenation and neural activity for weeks in unconstrained mice.

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Fig. 1: Implantable resorbable photonic spectrometer.

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  1. Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Sarah Forward, Sheldon J. J. Kwok & Seok-Hyun Yun

  2. Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Seok-Hyun Yun

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Forward, S., Kwok, S.J.J. & Yun, SH. Bioresorbable spectrometers. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 594–595 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0441-0

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