Microflow1, a sheathless fiber-optic flow cytometry biomedical platform: Demonstration onboard the international space station

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 322-331

  Dubeau Laramée, Geneviève ^a   Rivière, Christophe ^b   Jean, Isabelle ^a   Mermut, Ozzy ^b   Cohen, Luchino Y ^a  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^b INO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical diagnostics; Fiber optics; Flow cytometry; Immunophenotyping; International space station; Microfluidics; Microgravity; Multiplex assays; Sheathless; Space flight

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; PROCEDURES; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 84897006685     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22427     Document Type: Article

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