Guided dielectrophoresis: A robust method for continuous particle and cell separation

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1440-1446

  Kostner, Stefan ^a   Van Den Driesche, Sander ^a   Witarski, Wojciech ^b   Pastorekova, Silvia ^b   Vellekoop, Michael J ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Dielectrophoresis; microfluidic; separation; SU 8

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IMAGE PROCESSING; CELL SEPARATION; CERVICAL CANCERS; CONTINUOUS SEPARATION; DIELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN CELL LINES; HYDRODYNAMIC FOCUSING; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MULTIPLE EXCITATIONS; NEGATIVE DEP; ON-CHIP SEPARATIONS; PARTICLE POSITION; POLYSTYRENE BEADS; ROBUST METHODS; SAMPLE POSITION; SEPARATION CHANNEL; SEPARATION PRINCIPLE; SEPARATION PROCESS; SEPARATION VOLTAGE; T-CELL LEUKEMIA;

CELL CULTURE; ELECTRODES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYSTYRENES;

ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 77954613248     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2044787     Document Type: Article

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