生物医学工程

Micro grooves have been designed to trap a biological cell, which flows through a micro channel in vitro. Each micro groove of a rectangular shape (0.002 mm depth, 0.025 mm width and 0.2 mm length) has been fabricated on the surface of the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) disk with the photolithography technique. Variation has been made on the angle between the longitudinal direction of the groove and the flow direction: zero, 0.79, or 1.57 rad.

Separation technique of the circulating tumor cell (CTC), which would be a sample for diagnostics of cancer, is important. In the present study, a micro flow device, which has gaps between micro-cylinders, has been fabricated by photolithography technique to distinguish between cancer cells and red blood cells. Two kinds of cells were used in the test: Hepa1-6 and swine red blood cell. The mean diameters of two kinds of cells measured by ImageJ were 21 μm and 6 μm. Variation was made on the dimension of the gap: 10, 15, 20 and 25 μm.