Microfluidic Based Optical Microscopes on Chip

• Published in: Cytometry. Part A Vol. 93; no. 10; pp. 987 - 996
• Main Authors: Paiè, Petra, Martínez Vázquez, Rebeca, Osellame, Roberto, Bragheri, Francesca, Bassi, Andrea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.10.2018; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Automation; Biomonitoring; brightfield; Cell culture; Fluorescence; Fluorescence microscopy; Imaging; Imaging techniques; lab on chip; Lab-on-a-chip; Microfluidics; Microscopes; Optical components; Optical microscopes; optical microscopy; Optics; optofluidics; Phase contrast; Review; lab on chip; brightfield; fluorescence; optofluidics; optical microscopy

Last decade's advancements in optofluidics allowed obtaining an ever increasing integration of different functionalities in lab on chip devices to culture, analyze, and manipulate single cells and entire biological specimens. Despite the importance of optical imaging for biological sample monit...