About the Authors
- Calvin Kuo
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: calvink@stanford.edu
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America
- Lyndia Wu
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America
- Jesus Loza
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America
- Daniel Senif
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Stanford Sports Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America
- Scott C. Anderson
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Stanford Sports Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America
- David B. Camarillo
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors are developing the Stanford Mouthguard used in this study as a research device to study mild traumatic brain injury, and the findings of this study may help inform sensor design. Some of the authors are coinventors on Stanford-owned patents related to head impact detection (patent 14/199,716: “Device for Detecting On-Body Impacts” with Lyndia Wu and David Camarillo listed as inventors) and mechanical design (patent 15/373,454: “Oral Appliance for Measuring Head Motions by Isolating Sensors from Jaw Perturbance” with Calvin Kuo, Lyndia Wu, and David Camarillo listed as inventors) of an instrumented mouthguard. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.