Single cell optical transmittance based label-free malaria detection at the point-of-care

Banoth, E and Jagannadh, VK and Gorthi, SS (2014) Single cell optical transmittance based label-free malaria detection at the point-of-care. In: International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, 13-16 December 2014, Kharagpur, India.

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel optical transmittance based diagnostic device, which can carry out label-free detection of malaria. The presented device is capable of detecting very low levels of parasitemia (as low as 0.0001 ) in few minutes. With a pair of laser diode and a avalanche photodetector we have recorded optical transmittance values of cells passing through a microfluidic device. The optical transmittance values were recorded and processed using an inexpensive microcontroller. © OSA 2014.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, 2014
Publisher:	Optical Society of America (OSA)
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Optical Society of America
Keywords:	Diseases; Photodetectors; Photonics, Avalanche photodetectors; Diagnostic device; Label free; Label-free detection; Micro-fluidic devices; Parasitemia; Point of care; Single cells, Opacity
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2021 10:53
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2021 10:53
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/65789

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