Joint International Research Laboratory of Water and Nutrient in Crop, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
Nucleic acid testing (NAT) has been widely used in many fields such as medical diagnosis, food safety testing and forensic identification. However, it can only be carried out in professional laborator...
To describe the construction and testing of a portable point-of-care low-field MRI system on site in Africa....
All of the components to assemble a 50 mT Halbach magnet-based system, together with the necessary tools, were air-freighted from the Netherlands to Uganda. The construction steps included individual ...
With four instructors and six untrained personnel, the complete project from delivery to first image took approximately 11 days....
An important step in translating scientific developments in the western world from high-income industrialized countries to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is to produce technology that can be...
To review the major hardware components of low-field point-of-care MRI systems which affect the overall sensitivity....
Designs for the following components are reviewed and analyzed: magnet, RF coils, transmit/receive switches, preamplifiers, data acquisition system, and methods for grounding and mitigating electromag...
High homogeneity magnets can be produced in a variety of different designs including C- and H-shaped as well as Halbach arrays. Using Litz wire for RF coil designs enables unloaded Q values of ~ 400 t...
There are many different magnet and RF coil designs in the literature, and to enable meaningful comparisons and optimizations to be performed it would be very helpful to determine a standardized set o...
The diagnostic potential of urine NT-pro-BNP has been studied recently and shows great promise, especially for children. Bedside serum-NT-proBNP determination with point of care testing (POCT) is esta...
104 urine samples were analysed, partly with double and triple determinations and compared to the established Elecsys system. To investigate the stability of NT-proBNP in urine, five samples were stor...
34 % of samples lay outside the POCT range (60 pg/ml-9000 pg/ml). The 69 values within the range were correlated with those measured by Elecsys (correlation coefficient of 0.92; p < 0.001). Linear reg...
Analysing NT-ProBNP in urine with cobas h232 POC system is feasible, but the detection range needs to be adjusted. As urine NT-proBNP proved stable for at least 96 h even postal shipping would be poss...
Over the past two years, SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2) infection has spread globally causing multi-organ disease and severely impacting the healthcare systems of all cou...
In this review, we provide an overview of the nanopaper biosensors used for point of care (POC) diagnostics in various fields such as biomedical, environmental, food safety, and agriculture. The later...
Viscoelastic test (VET) procedures suitable for point-of-care (POC) testing are in widespread clinical use. Due to the expanded range of available devices and in particular due to the development of n...
Creatinine and albumin are crucial biomarkers for health monitoring and their ratio in urine is an effective approach for albuminuria assessment. Herein, to address the challenges of point-of-care and...
The complete blood count (CBC) is one of the most requested tests by physicians. CBC tests, most realized in conventional hematological analyzers, are restricted to centralized laboratories due to fre...
Iron deficiency is a public health problem with devastating health, developmental and behavioral effects which often exacerbated due to affordability and access to screening and diagnosis. Using...
