. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 23.

Published in final edited form as: Lab Chip. 2013 May 7;13(9):1790–1796. doi: 10.1039/c3lc41269e

Table 1.

Flow rates for inlet and outlets A-E, plasma yield and the amount of cells/L of the generated plasma for the improved acoustic plasmapheresis microchip as compared to our previously reported microchip design.

	Inlet (μl/min)	Waste outlet A (μl/min)	Waste outlet B (μl/min)	Waste outlet C (μmin)	Waste outlet D (μl/min)	Plasma outlet E (μl/min)	Fraction of plasma from whole blood	Erythrocytes/L in produced plasma
Previous design	80	20	20	15	15	10	12.5 %	3.7×10⁹
Improved design	50	10	10	10	10	10	20%	4.2×10⁹