Title
24.6 A CMOS micro-flow cytometer for magnetic label detection and classification
Abstract
Flow cytometry is widely used in medicine for hematology, immunology, chemotherapy and pathology, as well as in food and water safety. While present instruments are predominantly used in laboratory environments, there is a growing and unmet need for devices that can be used in point-of-care (PoC) settings. The main impediments to PoC solutions are the fluorescent labels, which require sophisticated sample pre-processing and calibration to reduce background, and optics that are difficult to miniaturize. Label-free approaches such as reported in [1] eliminate this problem but have limited applications due to a lack of specificity. Substituting magnetic labels avoids this limitation and eliminates the need for preprocessing, but present solutions use μHall sensors [2] or giant-magneto-resistors (GMRs) [3], which are not available in standard CMOS technology. CMOS LC-tank spectrometry [4] is amenable to integration but does not achieve the bandwidth and sensitivity required for flow cytometry. In this paper, we present a magnetic flow cytometer integrated in standard CMOS technology assembled in a single-use microfluidic cartridge that meets all the above-mentioned requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISSCC.2014.6757497
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers
Keywords
Field
DocType
cmos integrated circuits,biomedical measurement,flowmeters,magnetic sensors,microsensors,cmos lc-tank spectrometry,cmos microflow cytometer,cmos technology,gmrs,poc settings,chemotherapy,fluorescent labels,food safety,giant-magnetoresistors,hematology,immunology,label-free approach,magnetic flow cytometer,magnetic label classification,magnetic label detection,pathology,point-of-care setting,sample pre-processing,single-use microfluidic cartridge,water safety
Computer science,Signal-to-noise ratio,Microfluidics,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Preprocessor,Bandwidth (signal processing),Water safety,Calibration
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0193-6530
2
0.66
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
pramod murali141.13
igor izyumin220.66
Daniel Nisim Cohen3296.02
Jun-Chau Chien413019.66
Ali M. Niknejad5942148.48
B. E. Boser633288.30