High-throughput microfluidic sorting of C. elegans for automated force pattern measurement

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 700, Issue , 2012, Pages 182-187

  Johari, S ^a   Nock, V ^a   Alkaisi, M M ^a   Wang, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Force Patterns; Microfluidic; PDMS

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIC DEVICES; FORCE MEASUREMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

APPLYING PRESSURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FLUIDIC CHANNELS; FORCE PATTERNS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENTS; INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES; PATTERN MEASUREMENTS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS;

SILICONES;

EID: 80053946722     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.700.182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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