Miniaturized planar tomography for multiphase stagnant sample detection

Abstract

Miniaturized device offers portability, high throughput and faster time response compared to macroscale devices. In microdevices, most of the application utilizes planar electrode for microanalysis process as it is inexpensive, highly controllable system and easy for installation. In addition, miniaturized planar sensor offers great potential for microscale medical diagnosis, chemical analysis, environmental analysis, cell culture application and single cell measurement using tomography measurement. In this project, a miniaturized planar tomography system is developed for multiphase sample detection such as liquid-solid and liquid-liquid. Eight-electrode device was fabricated on the copper plated printed circuit board (PCB) using the commercial fabrication technique. The ability of the proposed device in reconstructing images of a multiphase sample using Linear Back Projection algorithm is tested. Experimental results show that the reconstructed images closely resemble with the cross-section of the stagnant multiphase sample.