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

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