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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2014 Feb 27;9(3):694–710. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2014.044

Figure 1.

Figure 1

CTC-iChip schematic. The CTC-iChip is composed of two separate microfluidic devices that house three different microfluidic components engineered for inline operation: DLD to remove nucleated cells from whole blood by size-based deflection by using a specially designed array of posts performed in CTC-iChip1, inertial focusing to line up cells to prepare for precise magnetic separation and magnetophoresis for sensitive separation of bead-labeled WBCs and unlabeled CTCs, which are performed in CTC-iChip2. PLTs, platelets.