E-disk .. A smart way to track stomach disorders

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States has developed an electronic tablet made of soft jelly-like material. Once swallowed by the patient, it reaches the stomach and swells up to the size of a table tennis ball. She stays a long time inside 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 withstand the acid environment of the patient. # 39; s stomach..

"The goal of this study is to create 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The health of the patient.

The study team confirmed that the electronic disk he had invented was very hard; it has been tested thousands of times under pressure and subjected to greater forces than can be exposed to conventional contractions of the stomach..

"We have discovered that even in the case of a small cut in the circumference of the disc, it would not expand and tear in the event of pressure and pull tens of thousands of times."