Microfluidic Devices for A Fully Integrated Blood Test System

Abstract

Most biomedical sample analyses require either chemical or mechanical methods for precise analyses of a sample depending on its purpose. Especially, blood test requires various methodologies to investigate clinically relevant information. Recently, a microfluidic system for the applications of blood tests has been highlighted and extensively studied in many research groups because of its numerous advantages over conventional methods including small sample consumption and fast analysis time. The presentation is composed of two parts. First part is microfluidic devices for blood sample preparation. Second part is microfluidic devices for blood sample analysis. In each part, both mechanical and chemical methods for the sample preparations and analyses are introduced.