Title : 
Separation of blood cells and plasma in microchannel
         
        
            Author : 
Seo, Jee-Hoon ; Kim, Duck Jong ; Son, Sang-Uk ; Yoon, Eui Soo ; Lee, Seung S. ; Kang, Seung Joo
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
All Medicus Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi, South Korea
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A flow-through in-line/staggered type micro blood filter has been proposed for the purpose of separating blood cell and plasma from the whole blood. The micro blood filter have been fabricated in simple design and simple process by silicon micromachining and tested for their percent efficiency of separating blood cell and plasma from diluted blood samples.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biological techniques; blood; flow separation; haemodynamics; microfluidics; micromachining; blood cells separation; diluted blood samples; microblood filter; microchannel; microfluidics; plasma separation; silicon micromachining; Blood; Cells (biology); Filters; Finite volume methods; Geometry; Microchannel; Particle separators; Plasma diagnostics; Plasma materials processing; Turning;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, 2005. Digest of Technical Papers. TRANSDUCERS '05. The 13th International Conference on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8994-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1497414