Optical assay for biotechnology and clinical diagnosis

IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2011 Aug;58(8). doi: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2113348. Epub 2011 Feb 10.

Abstract

In this paper, we present an optical diagnostic assay consisting of a mixture of environmental-sensitive fluorescent dyes combined with multivariate data analysis for quantitative and qualitative examination of biological and clinical samples. The performance of the assay is based on the analysis of spectrum of the selected fluorescent dyes with the operational principle similar to electronic nose and electronic tongue systems. This approach has been successfully applied for monitoring of growing cell cultures and identification of gastrointestinal diseases in humans.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Biological Assay / methods*
  • Biomimetics / methods*
  • Biopolymers / analysis*
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Fluorescent Dyes*
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence / methods*

Substances

  • Biopolymers
  • Fluorescent Dyes