Ultra-high throughput enrichment of viable circulating tumor cells

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-4

  Khoo, B L ^b   Warkiani, M E ^a   Guan, Guofeng ^a,c   Tan, Daniel Shao Weng ^d   Lim, Alvin S T ^f   Lim, Wan Teck ^d   Yap, Yoon Sim ^d   Lee, Soo Chin ^g   Soo, Ross A ^g   Han, Jongyoon ^a,h   Lim, Chwee Teck ^a,b,c,e  

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

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e Clearbridge BioMedics Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^f SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

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

Author keywords

Cancer detection; Cell separation; Circulating tumor cells (CTCs); Inertial microfluidics; Point of care diagnostics

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROFLUIDICS; PATIENT TREATMENT; THROUGHPUT; TUMORS;

CANCER DETECTION; CELL SEPARATION; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS; INERTIAL MICROFLUIDICS; POINT OF CARE DIAGNOSTIC;

CELLS;

EID: 84928251264     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02913-9_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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