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. 2018 Jun 1;18(6):1762. doi: 10.3390/s18061762

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Applications of contraction-expansion-array-channel inertial microfluidics. (a) Enriching malaria parasites from blood to facilitate a more reliable and specific PCR-based malaria detection. Ref. [7]. Copyright (2014), with permission from Royal Society of Chemistry; (b) High-throughput vortex chip that integrates a crowd of CEA channels to enrich rare circulating tumor cells (CTC). Ref. [66]; (c) Multi-stage flow fractionation (MS-MOFF) device designed for separating breast cancer cells from blood. Ref. [67]. Rights managed by AIP Publishing; (d) CEA channel simulated by continuous microcolumns to enrich CTCs. Ref. [68]. Copyright (2013), with permission from Royal Society of Chemistry; (e) Asymmetric CEA channel used to separate various kinds of cancer cells with high recovery and high throughput. Ref. [69]. Copyright (2013), with permission from American Chemical Society; (f) Particle capture and separation along unique particle trajectory made by CEA channel. Ref. [9]. Copyright (2017), with permission from Royal Society of Chemistry.