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Portable smartphone quantitation of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in a fluoropolymer microfluidic device

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posted on 2015-04-22, 10:25 authored by Ana I. Barbosa, Poonam Gehlot, Kalpita Sidapra, Alexander D. Edwards, Nuno Reis
We present a new, power-free and flexible detection system named MCFphone for portable colorimetric and fluorescence quantitative sandwich immunoassay detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA). The MCFphone is composed by a smartphone integrated with a magnifying lens, a simple light source and a miniaturised immunoassay platform, the Microcapillary Film (MCF). The excellent transparency and flat geometry of fluoropolymer MCF allowed quantitation of PSA in the range 0.9 to 60. ng/ml with<7% precision in 13. min using enzymatic amplification and a chromogenic substrate. The lower limit of detection was further improved from 0.4 to 0.08. ng/ml in whole blood samples with the use of a fluorescence substrate. The MCFphone has shown capable of performing rapid (13 to 22. min total assay time) colorimetric quantitative and highly sensitive fluorescence tests with good %Recovery, which represents a major step in the integration of a new generation of inexpensive and portable microfluidic devices with commercial immunoassay reagents and off-the-shelf smartphone technology.

Funding

This work was co-funded by Capillary Film Technology Ltd, Loughborough University and EPSRC [grant no. EP/L013983/1].

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Volume

70

Pages

5 - 14

Citation

BARBOSA, A. ... et al, 2015. Portable smartphone quantitation of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in a fluoropolymer microfluidic device. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 70, pp.5-14.

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Elsevier B.V. (© 2015 The Authors)

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This article was published as Open Access by Elsevier B.V. under the CC BY license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

ISSN

0956-5663

eISSN

1873-4235

Language

  • en

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