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Optical signals are absorbed and scattered differently depending on skin pigmentation.

— Valencia Koomson

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There has been an opening of doors in terms of helping people to connect and collaborate within their field and across fields.

The goal is to develop a wearable medical device capable of measuring a multitude of parameters. Most medical devices in current circulation can only measure one or two.

We’re dealing with very weak optical signals that have to transverse through tissues with lots of [other] elements that absorb and scatter light

It’s very similar to when you’re riding a car and you go through a tunnel. You lose signal because of the absorption of the materials in the tunnel, such that the signal being transmitted from the cell-phone tower is too weak to be processed by your phone.

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