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The electronic disk contains a sensor capable of measuring the temperature of the stomach for thirty days

A team of researchers at the Mbadachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States has developed an electronic tablet made of soft jelly-like material. Once swallowed by the patient, she has reached the stomach until she swells to the size of a table tennis ball and stays indoors for a long time to monitor digestive disorders.

The electronic disk contains a sensor capable of measuring the temperature of the stomach for 30 days continuously. If the disc needs to be removed from the patient's stomach, he drinks a liquid containing calcium, which leads to the reduction of the disc to its original size. Outside the body.

The electronic disk consists of a mixture of hydrogel, polymers and water, which allows it to resize easily in the patient's abdomen and to withstand the acid environment at the same time. Inside the stomach.
"The purpose of this study is to design a smart disc that can be ingested and stay in the stomach for a long time up to a month," said Xuan Hee Chao, professor of mechanical engineering at Mbadachusetts Institute of Technology. The health of the patient ".

The study team confirmed that the electronic disk he had invented was very hard, tested thousands of times by pressure and exposed to forces more powerful than conventional contractions of the stomach.
He added that "the stomach contains thousands of millions of contractions to grind the food inside, and we discovered that even though it was a small cut into the casing surrounding the disc, this part would not expand or rupture in the case of pressures and voltages thousands of times.