Sample concentration and purification for point-of-care diagnostics

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2396-2399

  Ho, Nga T ^a   Fan, Andy ^a   Klapperich, Catherine M ^b   Cabodi, Mario ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; ON CHIPS; PCR REACTIONS; POINT OF CARE; POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTICS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SAMPLE CONCENTRATION; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SAMPLE VOLUME; SERUM SAMPLES; TARGET ANALYTES; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL PARTICLES;

BIOSENSORS; DIAGNOSIS; DIALYSIS; ELECTROLYTES; EVAPORATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASMAS; PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

DISEASES;

PLASMA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880937686     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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