title: Scattering pulse of label free fine structure cells to determine the size scale of scattering structures.
abstract: Scattering pulse is sensitive to the morphology and components of each single label-free cell. The most direct detection result, label free cell's scattering pulse is studied in this paper as a novel trait to recognize large malignant cells from small normal cells. A set of intrinsic scattering pulse calculation method is figured out, which combines both hydraulic focusing theory and small particle's scattering principle. Based on the scattering detection angle ranges of widely used flow cytometry, the scattering pulses formed by cell scattering energy in forward scattering angle 2°-5° and side scattering angle 80°-110° are discussed. Combining the analysis of cell's illuminating light energy, the peak, area, and full width at half maximum (FWHM) of label free cells' scattering pulses for fine structure cells with diameter 1-20 μm are studied to extract the interrelations of scattering pulse's features and cell's morphology. The theoretical and experimental results show that cell's diameter and FWHM of its scattering pulse agree with approximate linear distribution; the peak and area of scattering pulse do not always increase with cell's diameter becoming larger, but when cell's diameter is less than about 16 μm the monotone increasing relation of scattering pulse peak or area with cell's diameter can be obtained. This relationship between the features of scattering pulse and cell's size is potentially a useful but very simple criterion to distinguishing malignant and normal cells by their sizes and morphologies in label free cells clinical examinations.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Xingyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Zhenxi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Kaixing
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D002452:Cell Count; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D008027:Light