Title :
An inexpensive, battery powered and portable instrument for the optical detection of pathogens
Author :
Khanna, Raghav ; Stanchina, William ; Jones, Alex ; Vats, Abhay
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
In order to satisfy an emergent demand in point of care (POC) diagnostics as well as low resource settings such as in developing countries, we have integrated optical and bio-medical engineering to implement a device, which detects pathogens and displays test results using cell phones. The device employs DNA amplification and off-the-shelf components to obtain the diagnosis.
Keywords :
DNA; biomedical equipment; biomedical optical imaging; molecular biophysics; patient diagnosis; portable instruments; DNA amplification; battery powered instrument; biomedical engineering; cell phones; inexpensive instrument; optical engineering; pathogen optical detection; point of care diagnostics; portable instrument; Band pass filters; DNA; Fluorescence; Heating; Instruments; Optical filters; Pathogens; Bio Instrumentation; LAMP; optics; palm-top computing;
Conference_Titel :
Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop (LiSSA), 2011 IEEE/NIH
Conference_Location :
Bethesda, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0421-5
DOI :
10.1109/LISSA.2011.5754181
