電気キャパシタンス・トモグラフィー法による体外循環血流内の血栓検出法の確立

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We are going on with the development of the lab-on-a-CD hardware in Takei laboratory in Nishi Chiba campus of Chiba University. Takei laboratory in Nishi Chiba campus of Chiba University. At the moment, we have managed to assemble the main components of the lab-on-a-CD hardware and improving the stability of the hardware to a robust form that can be easily transported between Takei laboratory in Nishi Chiba campus of Chiba University to the infection and host defense laboratory in Inohana campus of Chiba University where we shall be doing experiments using cultured malaria parasites. Since malaria is not endemic in Japan, the robustness will also enable the lab-on-a-CD hardware to be easily transported to Kenya where we are doing a collaborative research with Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) as well the institute of Primate Research (IPR). We are also doing in-vitro sensor analysis using Normal saline at increasing concentration to determine the functionality of each sensor. We are also using a mixture of chicken blood to represent malaria blood mixed with porcine blood to represent normal human blood to check if the hardware can help to determine the volume fraction of chicken blood in the porcine blood. These initial in-vitro studies will help to identify the major problems in the various components of the hardware such as in the 8- sensor array system or the Arduino or any other part that may cause the inconsistences in the impedance measurement results using the novel lab-on-a-CD hardware in diagnosis of malaria.