Microfluidic point-of-care diagnostics for resource-poor environments.
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.
Laksanasopin
Tassaneewan
T
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. tl2359@columbia.edu
Chin
Curtis D
CD
Moore
Hannah
H
Wang
Jennifer
J
Cheung
Yuk Kee
YK
Sia
Samuel K
SK
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*