Pre-clinical evaluation of a low-cost tool for skin temperature measurements as a proxy to assess autonomic nerve function in leprosy neuropathy

• Arjan J. Knulst ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: a.j.knulst@tudelft.nl

  Affiliations INF Green Pastures Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, Pokhara, Nepal, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3610-0877

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• Fleur van den Bogaert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Alexander Kuipers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Lieke Roelofs,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Jenny Dankelman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-2129

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• Wim Brandsma,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Leprosy Rehabilitation Consultant, Hoevelaken, The Netherlands

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• Corine Knulst-Verlaan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INF Green Pastures Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, Pokhara, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2463-2825

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• Suraj Maharjan

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INF Green Pastures Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, Pokhara, Nepal

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