Simple telemedicine for developing regions: camera phones and paper-based microfluidic devices for real-time, off-site diagnosis.

By Andres W. Martinez, Scott Phillips, E. Carrilho, S. Thomas, H. Sindi, George M. Whitesides. Analytical Chemistry, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology

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In Biomedical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Three-dimensional microfluidic devices fabricated in layered paper and tape (2008, methodology): “15 g cm 2), and are easy to stack, store, and transport; they do not require external pumps, and they are thus appropriate for applications in: (i) innovative developing countries (IDCs) (15), as diagnostic and analytical devices that could be combined with telemedicine (1); (ii) array-based analyti”
• Advances in paper-based point-of-care diagnostics. (2014, methodology): “In contrast, imaging analysis by a handheld reader or a cell phone (Martinez et al., 2008a), or visual estimation by the naked eye (by comparing the color change to a predetermined score chart) (Dineva et al., 2005) is used to report quantitative readouts.”
• Recent Advances in Paper-Based Sensors (2012, methodology): “For colorimetric assays there has been a move towards the use of camera phones to interpret the result [1,12,22,23,57].”
• How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX (2011, positive): “Some studies have highlighted the successful use of mobile phones to support telemedicine and remote healthcare in developing nations [14], with examples including their use in off-site medical diagnosis [15] and as information support in the treatment of HIV care in difficult to reach rural areas [”
• Lab-in-a-Phone: Smartphone-Based Portable Fluorometer for pH Measurements of Environmental Water (2014, methodology): “Paper-based microfluidic devices have been used externally with smartphone for the colorimetric detection of various analytes [7]– [10].”