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Counting Infected Blood Cells with Your Cell Phone

Posted on September 30, 2008

Using standard CCD photo camera light sensors, without utilizing any lens optics, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles are able to distinguish between normal and infected cells in blood samples. The technique, developed, and now improved, by Dr.Aydogan Ozcan and colleagues from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, is called LUCAS, or Lensless Ultra-wide-field Cell monitoring Array. It is in essence a diffraction shadow imaging modality.Here's what UCLA says about the research:First published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal Lab Chip in 2007, the LUCAS tec...

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