This work reports on a smartphone-based quantitative POCT system which consists of a paper-based microarray chip,a homemade LEGO dark-box,and a smartphone installed with custom-designed FChip-APP,for on-site quantitat...This work reports on a smartphone-based quantitative POCT system which consists of a paper-based microarray chip,a homemade LEGO dark-box,and a smartphone installed with custom-designed FChip-APP,for on-site quantitation of Fe^(3+),Vitamin 12(VB12),and folic acid(FA).Collection and automatic analysis of fluorescence turn-off response of three kinds of fluorescent nanoprobes which are coated onto filter papers by a smartphone-based device is the principle behind this study.The POCT system exhibits good analytical performance for multiplexed analysis of Fe^(3+),VB_(12)and FA with a wide linear range(Fe^(3+),1.0–14.0μg mL^(-1)(R^(2)=0.983);VB_(12),1.35–40.0μg mL^(-1)(R^(2)=0.991);FA,2.0–26.0μg mL^(-1)(R^(2)=0.994))and low detection limit(Fe^(3+),0.35μg mL^(-1);VB12,0.47μg mL^(-1);FA,0.56μg mL^(-1)).The cost and weight of the whole system are~$220 and~600 g per set,highlighting its cost-eff ectiveness and portability.The simple operation procedures and user-friendly interface of the FChip-APP validate the ease-of-use feature of the reported system.This versatile smartphonebased quantitative POCT system provides a cost-eff ective and easy-of-use method for screening the context-specific causes of anemia and thus its eff ective interventions in the future,especially in resource-limited areas.展开更多
基金The financial support from Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou(201803020026)Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensing Technology and Biomedical Instruments(2020B1212060077)Guangdong Natural Science Foundation(S2017A030313076,2020A1515010661)
文摘This work reports on a smartphone-based quantitative POCT system which consists of a paper-based microarray chip,a homemade LEGO dark-box,and a smartphone installed with custom-designed FChip-APP,for on-site quantitation of Fe^(3+),Vitamin 12(VB12),and folic acid(FA).Collection and automatic analysis of fluorescence turn-off response of three kinds of fluorescent nanoprobes which are coated onto filter papers by a smartphone-based device is the principle behind this study.The POCT system exhibits good analytical performance for multiplexed analysis of Fe^(3+),VB_(12)and FA with a wide linear range(Fe^(3+),1.0–14.0μg mL^(-1)(R^(2)=0.983);VB_(12),1.35–40.0μg mL^(-1)(R^(2)=0.991);FA,2.0–26.0μg mL^(-1)(R^(2)=0.994))and low detection limit(Fe^(3+),0.35μg mL^(-1);VB12,0.47μg mL^(-1);FA,0.56μg mL^(-1)).The cost and weight of the whole system are~$220 and~600 g per set,highlighting its cost-eff ectiveness and portability.The simple operation procedures and user-friendly interface of the FChip-APP validate the ease-of-use feature of the reported system.This versatile smartphonebased quantitative POCT system provides a cost-eff ective and easy-of-use method for screening the context-specific causes of anemia and thus its eff ective interventions in the future,especially in resource-limited areas.
