DocumentCode
2420464
Title
Microfluidic point-of-care diagnostics for resource-poor environments
Author
Laksanasopin, Tassaneewan ; Chin, Curtis D. ; Moore, Hannah ; Wang, Jennifer ; Cheung, Yuk Kee ; Sia, Samuel K.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
fYear
2009
fDate
3-6 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
1057
Lastpage
1059
Abstract
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics have tremendous potential to improve human health in remote and resource-poor settings. However, the design criteria for diagnostic tests appropriate in settings with limited infrastructure are unique and challenging. Here we present a custom optical reader which quantifies silver absorbance from heterogeneous immunoassays. The reader is simple, low-cost and suited for POC diagnostics.
Keywords
bioMEMS; microfluidics; patient diagnosis; heterogeneous immunoassays; human health; microfluidic point-of-care diagnostics; optical reader; resource-poor environments; silver absorbance; Energy Transfer; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Immunoassay; Lighting; Microfluidic Analytical Techniques; Point-of-Care Systems; Sensitivity and Specificity; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Minneapolis, MN
ISSN
1557-170X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN
1557-170X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334942
Filename
5334942
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