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ArticleIEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine2018

Precise Dispensing Technology Using Electroformed Tubes for Micro-Volume Blood Diagnosis.

Takahiro Ando, Masaaki Hirano, Yu Ishige, Sakuichiro Adachi

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Article in IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Takahiro AndoResearch & Development GroupHitachi, Ltd.Tokyo185-8601Japan.
Masaaki HiranoResearch & Development GroupHitachi, Ltd.Tokyo185-8601Japan.
Yu IshigeResearch & Development GroupHitachi, Ltd.Tokyo185-8601Japan.
Sakuichiro AdachiResearch & Development GroupHitachi, Ltd.Tokyo185-8601Japan.
Hitachi (Japan) · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precise dispensing of droplets is a crucial step for acquiring reliable blood diagnostic results. When the source sample volume is limited, the need for precise dispensing of submicroliter and nanoliter quantities is especially important. In this paper, we developed a positive-displacement high-precision dispensing technique using a nickel electroformed tube with an inner diameter accuracy of [Formula: see text] or less. When dispensing variation of 100 nL was evaluated by using a photometric method, the most stable coefficients of variation (CV) were observed for a tube thickness of [Formula: see text] with hydrophobic treatment, where the average CV value was 1.3%,

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biochemical analysisBlood testingdispensingglucosePOCT

Identifiers

PMID30042905
PMCPMC6054515
OpenAlexW2813432233

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