Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
The skin interfaces benefit from the unique properties of microneedles and microelec-
trodes. It is now evident that these components offer multifaceted advantages over their
conventional counterparts. However, successful clinical implementation of such systems
would entail overcoming numerous challenges in areas of design, fabrication, electronics
integration, deployment, testing, and data interpretation, among many others. The inter-
dependencies between the various design variables and the obtained characteristics are
highly complex, and warrant multidisciplinary research initiatives. Optimum utilization
of this technology depends upon our capacity to identify and resolve, qualitatively and
quantitatively, the various parametric entities involved.
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