Monitoring time course of human whole blood coagulation using a microfluidic dielectric sensor with a 3D capacitive structure

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015:2015:5904-7. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319735.

Abstract

This paper reports on the design, fabrication, and testing of a microfluidic sensor for dielectric spectroscopy (DS) of human whole blood during coagulation. The sensor employs a three-dimensional (3D), parallel-plate, capacitive sensing structure with a floating electrode integrated into a microfluidic channel. Using an impedance analyzer and after a 5-point calibration, the sensor is shown to measure the real part of complex relative dielectric permittivity of human whole blood in a frequency range of 10kHz to 100MHz. The temporal variation of dielectric permittivity at 1MHz for human whole blood from three different healthy donors shows a peak in permittivity at ~ 4 to 5 minutes, which also corresponds to the onset of CaCl2-initiated coagulation of the blood sample verified visually.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Blood Coagulation / physiology*
  • Dielectric Spectroscopy / instrumentation*
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / instrumentation*