Raman Spectroscopy in Human Health and Biomedicine
Raman Spectroscopy in Human Health and Biomedicine
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拉曼光谱在人类健康和生物医学中的应用
DOI:
10.1142/9789811264610_0007
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发表时间:
2023
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Sloan-Dennison S
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Sloan-Dennison S
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics are tests which can be performed at or near the site of a patient to produce results in a timely manner, improving on conventional tests which are mostly confined to a central laboratory. They are used in many different applications including diagnosing highly infectious diseases [1], providing routine daily monitoring of diseases such as diabetes [2], to assess the impact of treatments which includes oral anticoagulants [3] and for at home-testing to determine pregnancy [4]. There are many different types of POC devices and platforms. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, paper-based lateral flows have become one of the most well known [5]. Microfluidic devices are also routinely used to provide on-the-spot answers [6]. The test also does not necessarily have to use a device and could be as simple as mixing of reagents and samples to produce a solution-based platform. It is usually designed to detect the presence of a biomarker using different chemistries such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), immunoassays or enzymatic tests. Labeling molecules are also used which can then be detected visually or with a read-out instrument, to give either a simple yes/no answer or provide a quantitative result.