Microfluidic devices for blood fractionation

Micromachines

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-343

  Hou, Han Wei ^a,b   Bhagat, Ali Asgar S ^a   Lee, Wong Cheng ^a,c   Huang, Sha ^d   Han, Jongyoon ^a,d,e   Lim, Chwee Teck ^a,b,c,f  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blood separation; Cell separation; Disease detection and diagnosis; Enrichment; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD SAMPLES; BLOOD SEPARATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELLULAR COMPONENTS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DETECTION; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; IN-VIVO; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC-BASED; POINT OF CARE; SEPARATION SYSTEMS;

BLAST ENRICHMENT; DIAGNOSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; SEPARATION;

BLOOD;

EID: 84863215062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi2030319     Document Type: Article

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