Irawan Rudi, Tjin Swee Chuan
BioMedical Engineering Research Centre, Singapore-University of Washington Alliance, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Methods Mol Biol. 2009;503:403-22. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-567-5_23.
In life sciences, the problem of very small volume of sample, analytes, and reagents is often faced. Micro-fluidic technology is ideal for handling costly and difficult-to-obtain samples, analytes, and reagents, because it requires very small volume of samples, in order of microL or even nL. Among many types of optical techniques commonly used for biosensing in microfluidic chip, fluorescence detection technique is the most common. The standard free-space detection techniques used to detect fluorescence emission from microfluidic channel often suffer issues like scattering noise, crosstalks, misalignment, autofluorescence of substrate, and low collection efficiency. This chapter describes two fluorescence detection methods, based on in-fiber microchannels and in-fiber grooves, which can solve those problems, as the techniques integrate the excitation and emission light paths, and the sensing part. Utilizing an optical fiber as a sensing component makes these detection techniques suitable for lab-on-a-chip or microTAS applications.
在生命科学领域,常常会面临样品、分析物和试剂体积非常小的问题。微流控技术对于处理昂贵且难以获取的样品、分析物和试剂而言是理想之选,因为它所需的样品体积非常小,仅为微升甚至纳升量级。在微流控芯片中常用于生物传感的众多光学技术类型中,荧光检测技术最为常见。用于检测微流控通道荧光发射的标准自由空间检测技术常常存在诸如散射噪声、串扰、未对准、基底自发荧光以及收集效率低等问题。本章介绍了两种基于光纤微通道和光纤凹槽的荧光检测方法,这些方法能够解决上述问题,因为它们将激发光路、发射光路以及传感部分集成在一起。将光纤用作传感组件使得这些检测技术适用于芯片实验室或微全分析系统应用。