Novel approaches to microfluidic components in high-end medical applications

TRANSDUCERS 2003 - 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 623-626

  Goettsche, T ^a   Kohnle, J ^a   Willmann, M ^a   Ernst, H ^a   Messner, S ^a   Steger, R ^a   Storz, M ^a   Lang, W ^a   Zengerle, R ^b   Sandmaier, H ^a  

^a Institute of Micromachining and Information Technology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical equipment; Control systems; Drug delivery; Energy consumption; Medical control systems; Medical services; Microfluidics; Microvalves; Pressure control; Reservoirs

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DRUG DELIVERY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSYSTEMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE CONTROL; TRANSDUCERS; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

ACTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMPLANTABLE DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MEDICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; MEDICAL SERVICES; MICRO VALVES; MICROFLUIDIC COMPONENTS; PASSIVE FLOW CONTROL;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 84944721580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1215550     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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2. Strobelt et al., Energy optimized valves with low leakage rates, 5th Micro-Fluidics Symposium IMECE 2000, 2000, Orlando,FL
3. German Patent Pending DE 10254312.7, HSG-IMIT, 2002
4. Waibel et al., Highly integrated autonomous microdosage system, Sensors and Actuators A103 (2003) pp.225-230.