Disposable polymer "smart" lab-on-a-chip for point-of-care testing (POCT) in clinical diagnostics

Author

Ahn, Chong H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2005

Firstpage

437

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1496448

Filename

1496448