Particles and microfluidics merged: Perspectives of highly sensitive diagnostic detection

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 176, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 251-269

  Konry, Tania ^a   Bale, Shyam Sundhar ^a   Bhushan, Abhinav ^a   Shen, Keyue ^a   Seker, Erkin ^b   Polyak, Boris ^c   Yarmush, Martin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bead based diagnostics; Biomarker research; Cancer diagnosis; Detection of infectious microorganisms; Diagnostic detection; Microfluidic; Particle technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856305078     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-011-0705-1     Document Type: Review

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