Vision-based automated single-cell loading and supply system

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 332-340

  Uvet, Huseyin ^a   Hasegawa, Akiyuki ^a   Ohara, Kenichi ^a   Takubo, Tomohito ^a   Mae, Yasushi ^a   Arai, Tatsuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Micro robotics; Microfluidic; Single cell applications; Vision systems

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRUCTURES; CELL LOADING; CRITICAL STEPS; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; KEY TECHNIQUES; MICRO FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS; MICRO ROBOTICS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; MONITORING SYSTEM; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PNEUMATIC PRESSURE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; SINGLE-CELL APPLICATIONS; SUCTION MODULE; SUPPLY SYSTEM; VISION BASED; VISION SYSTEMS;

CELLS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MAMMALS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; ROBOTICS; SILICONES;

CYTOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CATTLE; CELL; CLONING; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; OOCYTE; SUCTION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CATTLE; CELLS; CLONING, ORGANISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; SUCTION; SWINE;

EID: 77049122976     PISSN: 15361241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2009.2035280     Document Type: Article

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