An instantaneous low-cost point-of-care anemia detection device

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 4564-4577

  Punter Villagrasa, Jaime ^a   Cid, Joan ^b   Páez Avilés, Cristina ^a   Rodríguez Villarreal, Ivón ^c   Juanola Feliu, Esteve ^a   Colomer Farrarons, Jordi ^a   Miribel Català, Pere Ll ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^c CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMÀTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electronics; Hematocrit; Impedance analysis; Point of care; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; SOLAR CELLS;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOCRIT MEASUREMENTS; IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; POINT OF CARE; WHOLE BLOOD;

BLOOD;

EID: 84923079626     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150204564     Document Type: Article

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