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Small. 2016 Mar 2;12(9):1222-1229. doi: 10.1002/smll.201501845. Epub 2015 Nov 2.

Integrating Cell Phone Imaging with Magnetic Levitation (i-LEV) for Label-Free Blood Analysis at the Point-of-Living.

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1
Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, Radiology Department, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA, 94304.
2
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA, 94304.
3
Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, CA, USA, 94304.
4
Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA, 94304.
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Contributed equally

Abstract

There is an emerging need for portable, robust, inexpensive, and easy-to-use disease diagnosis and prognosis monitoring platforms to share health information at the point-of-living, including clinical and home settings. Recent advances in digital health technologies have improved early diagnosis, drug treatment, and personalized medicine. Smartphones with high-resolution cameras and high data processing power enable intriguing biomedical applications when integrated with diagnostic devices. Further, these devices have immense potential to contribute to public health in resource-limited settings where there is a particular need for portable, rapid, label-free, easy-to-use, and affordable biomedical devices to diagnose and continuously monitor patients for precision medicine, especially those suffering from rare diseases, such as sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Here, a magnetic levitation-based diagnosis system is presented in which different cell types (i.e., white and red blood cells) are levitated in a magnetic gradient and separated due to their unique densities. Moreover, an easy-to-use, smartphone incorporated levitation system for cell analysis is introduced. Using our portable imaging magnetic levitation (i-LEV) system, it is shown that white and red blood cells can be identified and cell numbers can be quantified without using any labels. In addition, cells levitated in i-LEV can be distinguished at single-cell resolution, potentially enabling diagnosis and monitoring, as well as clinical and research applications.

KEYWORDS:

blood count; diagnostics; magnetic levitation; point-of-care device; precision medicine, blood analysis

PMID:
26523938
PMCID:
PMC4775401
DOI:
10.1002/smll.201501845
[Indexed for MEDLINE]
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