File(s) under permanent embargo
Reason: This item is currently closed access.
A scalable engineering approach to improve performance of a miniaturized optical detection system for in vitro point-of-care testing
conference contribution
posted on 2016-03-23, 10:18 authored by Hannah Robbins, Sijung HuSijung Hu, Changqing LiuChangqing LiuThe demand for rapid screening technologies, to be used outside of a traditional healthcare setting, has been vastly expanding. This is requiring a new engineering platform for faster and cost effective techniques to be easily adopted through forward-thinking manufacturing procedures, i.e., advanced miniaturisation and heterogeneous integration of high performance microfluidics based point-of-care testing (POCT) systems. Although there has been a considerable amount of research into POCT systems, there exist tremendous challenges and bottlenecks in the design and manufacturing in order to reach a clinical acceptability of sensitivity and selectivity, as well as smart microsystems for healthcare. The project aims to research how to enable scalable production of such complex systems through 1) advanced miniaturisation of a physical layout and opto-electronic component allocation through an optimal design; and 2) heterogeneous integration of multiplexed fluorescence detection (MFD) for in vitro POCT. Verification is being arranged through experimental testing with a series of dilutions of commonly used fluorescence dye, i.e. Cy5. Iterative procedures will be engaged until satisfaction of the detection limit, of Cy5 dye, 1.209x10-10M. The research creates a new avenue of rapid screening POCT manufacturing solutions with a particular view on high performance and multifunctional detection systems not only in POCT, but also life sciences and environmental applications.
Funding
The authors would like to express their deepest gratitude to Loughborough University who provided financial support for this project. Also, the authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) Project – “Micro-Multi-Material-Manufacture to Enable Multifunctional Miniaturised Devices (M6)”.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIEVolume
9320Citation
ROBBINS, H., HU, S. and LIU, C., 2015. A scalable engineering approach to improve performance of a miniaturized optical detection system for in vitro point-of-care testing. Proceedings of SPIE, 9320, DOI: 10.1117/12.2077526.Publisher
© SPIEVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This document is Closed Access.ISSN
0277-786XeISSN
1996-756XPublisher version
Language
- en