title: Microfluidic point-of-care diagnostics for resource-poor environments.
abstract: Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics have tremendous potential to improve human health in remote and resource-poor settings. However, the design criteria for diagnostic tests appropriate in settings with limited infrastructure are unique and challenging. Here we present a custom optical reader which quantifies silver absorbance from heterogeneous immunoassays. The reader is simple, low-cost and suited for POC diagnostics.
authors: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. tl2359@columbia.edu
authors: Tassaneewan
authors: T
authors: Laksanasopin
authors: Curtis D
authors: CD
authors: Chin
authors: Hannah
authors: H
authors: Moore
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Wang
authors: Yuk Kee
authors: YK
authors: Cheung
authors: Samuel K
authors: SK
authors: Sia
mesh_terms: D004735:Energy Transfer; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007118:Immunoassay / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008029:Lighting / Q000295:instrumentation*; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*