Title :
Disposable polymer "smart" lab-on-a-chip for point-of-care testing (POCT) in clinical diagnostics
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA
Abstract :
The recent development of an innovative disposable polymer smart lab-on-a-chip, which includes smart passive microfluidics, embedded on-chip power sources, and integrated biosensor array, has opened a new era for the point-of-care testing in clinical diagnostics. Several challenging issues in the development of the disposable polymer smart lab-on-a-chip have been explored and addressed in this work. A new disposable polymer "smart" lab-on-a-chip developed for measuring metabolic parameters from whole blood is presented in this paper.
Keywords :
biosensors; intelligent sensors; microfluidics; microsensors; patient diagnosis; polymers; POCT; clinical diagnostics; disposable lab-on-a-chip; embedded on-chip power sources; integrated biosensor array; point-of-care testing; polymer microfabrication; smart lab-on-a-chip; smart passive microfluidics; whole blood metabolic parameter measurement; Biological materials; Biosensors; Blood; Costs; Fabrication; Lab-on-a-chip; Laboratories; Microfluidics; Polymers; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, 2005. Digest of Technical Papers. TRANSDUCERS '05. The 13th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8994-8
DOI :
10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1496448
