μdroPi: A Hand-Held Microfluidic Droplet Imager and Analyzer Built on Raspberry Pi.

ABSTRACT: We built a low-cost and hand-held device to image and analyze microfluidic droplets mainly for educational/teaching purposes in laboratory settings of universities. The device was assembled based on a Raspberry Pi with a camera attached on the back and an LCD screen on the top. We evaluated the performance of this device to capture images and videos to visualize high-throughput droplet generation in a microfluidic device. The qualities of imaging resolution and speed were sufficient for us to perform subsequent droplet analysis quantitatively through automatic image possessing. Droplet characteristics including droplet size, volume, and dispersity, as well as droplet intensity, have been measured, showing the potential of this device to analyze droplet-based assays. Most importantly, in ad

SUBMITTER: Sun M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7263740 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature