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Proceedings Article | 12 November 2005 Paper

Studies of deionization and impedance spectroscopy for blood analyzer

Charlotte Kwong, Nan Li, Chih-Ming Ho

Proceedings Volume 6003, 60030N (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637567

KEYWORDS: Blood, Dielectric spectroscopy, Dielectrophoresis, Dielectrics, Ions, Microfluidics, Diffusion, Electrodes, Biological research, Capacitance

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Blood analysis provides vital information for health conditions. For instance, typical infection response is correlated to an elevated White Blood Cell (WBC) count, while low Red Blood Cell (RBC) count, hemoglobin and hematocrit are caused by anemia or internal bleeding. We are developing two essential modules, deionization (DI) chip and microfluidic cytometer with impedance spectroscopy flow, for enabling the realization of a single platform miniaturized blood analyzer. In the proposed analyzer, blood cells are preliminarily sorted by Dielectrophoretic (DEP) means into sub-groups, differentiated and counted by impedance spectroscopy in a flow cytometer. DEP techniques have been demonstrated to stretch DNA, align Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) and trap cells successfully. However, DEP manipulation does not function in biological media with high conductivity. The DI module is designed to account for this challenge. H Filter will serve as an ion extraction platform in a microchamber. Sample and buffer do not mix well in micro scale allowing the ions being extracted by diffusion without increasing the volume. This can keep the downstream processing time short. Micro scale hydrodynamic focusing is employed to place single cell passing along the central plane of the flow cytometer module. By applying an AC electrical field, suspended cells are polarized, membrane capacitance C_m, cytoplasm conductivity σ_c, and cytoplasm permittivity ε_c will vary as functions of frequency. Tracing back the monitored current, the numbers of individual cell species can be evaluated.

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