Fabrication of a turbid optofluidic phantom device with tunable µa and μ s’ to simulate cutaneous vascular perfusion

Chen C, Ahmed M, Häfner T, Klämpfl F, Stelzle F, Schmidt M (2016)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2016

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Publisher: Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Journals - Option B

Article Number: 30567

URI: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep30567

DOI: 10.1038/srep30567

Open Access Link: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep30567

Abstract

Microfluidic devices are oftenly used to calibrate the imaging reconstruction, because they simulate the morphology of microvasculature. However, for lack of optical properties in microfluidics, the functional recovery of oximetry information cannot be verified. In this work, we describe the fabrication of a novel turbid optofluidic tissue phantom. It is designed to mimic the vascular perfusion and the turbid nature of cutaneous tissue. This phantom contains an interior hollow microfluidic structure with a diameter of ϕave = 50 μm. The microfluidic structure includes the geometry of an inlet, a river-like assay and an outlet. This structure can be perfused by hemoglobin solution to mimic the cutaneous micro-circulation. The multiple-layered phantom matrices exhibit the representative optical parameters of human skin cutis, namely the absorption coefficient μand the reduced scattering coefficient . The geometry of the generated microfluidic structure is investigated by using Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. This optofluidic phantom bridges the gap between tissue equivalent phantoms and Lab-On-Chip devices. Perspectively, this device can be used to calibrate a variety of optical angiographic imaging approaches.

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APA:

Chen, C., Ahmed, M., Häfner, T., Klämpfl, F., Stelzle, F., & Schmidt, M. (2016). Fabrication of a turbid optofluidic phantom device with tunable µa and μ s’ to simulate cutaneous vascular perfusion. Scientific Reports. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep30567

MLA:

Chen, Chen, et al. "Fabrication of a turbid optofluidic phantom device with tunable µa and μ s’ to simulate cutaneous vascular perfusion." Scientific Reports (2016).

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