Title :
Two-photon absorption fluorescence imaging to characterize microfluidic device performance
Author :
Gibson, Emily A. ; Schafer, Dawn ; Chadwick, Rebecca ; Applegate, Robert, Jr. ; Amir, Wafa ; Vestad, Tor ; Oakey, John ; Brown, Matt ; Marr, David W M ; Squier, Jeff ; Jimenez, Ralph
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Abstract :
Two-photon absorption fluorescence imaging is used to quantitatively measure 3D flow and mixing in microfluidics. This is an important characterization tool for developing optimal microfluidic devices for use in the study of biological molecular dynamics.
Keywords :
bioMEMS; biological fluid dynamics; flow measurement; fluorescence; microfluidics; mixing; molecular biophysics; two-photon processes; 3D flow measurement; biological molecular dynamics; flow mixing; optimal microfluidic device performance; quantitative measurement; two-photon absorption fluorescence imaging; Absorption; Biological information theory; Fluorescence; Focusing; Hydrodynamics; Microfluidics; Microscopy; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Streaming media; (020.4180) Multiphoton Processes; (180.2520) Fluorescence Microscocopy; (180.6900) Three-dimensional Microscopy; (190.7110) Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627753
