@inproceedings{738373d3f05040aa8279d5e673cf55a0,
title = "Parylene membrane slot filter for the capture, analysis and culture of viable circulating tumor cells",
abstract = "This paper presents a method of capturing viable circulating tumor cells (CTC) from human whole blood using constant-pressure-driven filtration through a specially designed parylene-C membrane {"}slot{"} filter. More than 90% viable cancer cells could be recovered from whole blood using the slot filter, with minimal non-cancer blood cells left on the filter. The feasibility of the telomerase activity measurement of a single cancer cell taken from the filter after capture was proven. The on-filter and off-filter cultures of the captured cancer cells were also demonstrated.",
author = "Bo Lu and Tong Xu and Siyang Zheng and Amir Goldkorn and Tai, {Yu Chong}",
year = "2010",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442361",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781424457649",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "935--938",
booktitle = "MEMS 2010 - The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Technical Digest",
address = "United States",
note = "23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2010 ; Conference date: 24-01-2010 Through 28-01-2010",
}