Parylene membrane slot filter for the capture, analysis and culture of viable circulating tumor cells

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 935-938

  Lu, Bo ^a   Xu, Tong ^b   Zheng, Siyang ^c   Goldkorn, Amir ^b   Tai, Yu Chong ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BLOOD; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; TUMORS;

BLOOD CELLS; CANCER CELLS; CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELLS; CONSTANT PRESSURES; PARYLENE C; PARYLENE MEMBRANES; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; SLOT FILTERS; TELOMERASE ACTIVITY; WHOLE BLOOD;

CANCER CELLS;

EID: 77952771018     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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