The draw tower manufacturing process lends itself to the production of a distributed pressure sensing catheter, for time-space display of swallow waves in the human oesophagus. The Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) in Jena, Germany have used this technique to improve on the measurement procedure with a feasibility model comprising 30 fiber-optic sensors in a single fiber, spaced less than 10mm from each other
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