Fig. 4: Microfluidic enrichment of single MTCs and intact MTCCs from clinical effusions. | Microsystems & Nanoengineering

Fig. 4: Microfluidic enrichment of single MTCs and intact MTCCs from clinical effusions.

From: Cascading inertial microfluidics for high-throughput, multi-scale enrichment of tumor cells and intact clusters towards enhanced malignancy diagnosis

Fig. 4: Microfluidic enrichment of single MTCs and intact MTCCs from clinical effusions.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a Bright-field focusing maps depicting the cell distribution near the two-stage outlets of our cascaded inertial microfluidic device. b Fluorescent microscopic images illustrating cell distributions at the initial sample and two enriched samples collected from outlets 3 and 4. c Proportions of WBCs, single MTCs, and intact MTCCs collected from the inlet and two target outlets 3 and 4

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