Fig. 7: Measurement of blood flow and monitoring of wound healing.

a Photograph of a device on the skin; b raw data from a device applied to an area above a large vessel; and c spatial map of the temperature at t = 300 s. d Optical image of a suture strip after knotting; e example of a device under wrapping; and f temperature monitoring using an instrumented suture strip at the location of an incision on an animal model. g Photo of the wound with an EES on day 1 (higher right), temperature distribution recorded with an EES over the course of one month after the surgery. a–c Reproduced with permission¹³⁴ (Copyright 2015, the American Association for the Advancement of Science). d–f Reproduced with permission¹²⁶ (Copyright 2012, Wiley-VCH). g Reproduced with permission¹³⁵ (Copyright 2014, Wiley-VCH).