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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages 1234-1239Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20016j
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- EPSRC [TS/G001405/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [TS/G001405/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Single cell impedance cytometry is a label-free electrical analysis method that requires minimal sample preparation and has been used to count and discriminate cells on the basis of their impedance properties. This paper shows experimental and numerically simulated impedance signals for test particles (6 mm diameter polystyrene) flowing through a microfluidic channel. The variation of impedance signal with particle position is mapped using numerical simulation and these results match closely with experimental data. We demonstrate that for a nominal 40 mu m x 40 mu m channel, the impedance signal is independent of position over the majority of the channel area, but shows large experimentally verifiable variation at extreme positions. The parabolic flow profile in the channel ensures that most of the sample flows through the area of uniform signal. At high flow rates inertial focusing is observed; the particles flow in equal numbers through two equilibrium positions reducing the coefficient of variance (CV) in the impedance signals to negligible values.
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