Wearable Soft Microtube Sensors for Quantitative Home-Based Erectile Dysfunction Monitoring.
Sensors (Basel)
; 22(23)2022 Nov 30.
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| ID: mdl-36502045
ABSTRACT
Quantifiable erectile dysfunction (ED) diagnosis involves the monitoring of rigidity and tumescence of the penile shaft during nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT). In this work, we introduce Erectile Dysfunction SENsor (EDSEN), a home-based wearable device for quantitative penile health monitoring based on stretchable microtubular sensing technology. Two types of sensors, the T- and R-sensors, are developed to effectively measure penile tumescence and rigidity, respectively. Conical models mimicking penile shaft were fabricated with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) material, using different base to curing agent ratios to replicate the different hardness properties of a penile shaft. A theoretical buckling force chart for the different penile models is generated to determine sufficiency criteria for sexual intercourse. An average erect penile length and circumference requires at least a Young's modulus of 179 kPa for optimal buckling force required for satisfactory sexual intercourse. The conical penile models were evaluated using EDSEN. Our results verified that the circumference of a penile shaft can be accurately measured by T-sensor and rigidity using the R-sensor. EDSEN provides a private and quantitative method to detect ED within the comfortable confines of the user's home.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Wearable Electronic Devices
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Erectile Dysfunction
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Sensors (Basel)
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Singapore