DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS USING PLASMONIC GRATINGS

The invention broadly relates techniques for imaging and medical diagnosis and, more particularly, to the fabrication of flexible plasmonic gratings and the use thereof in detection of biomarkers. A first aspect of the invention provides for techniques for the fabrication of novel, flexible plasmoni...

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Hauptverfasser:	MATHAI, Cherian Joseph, GRANT, Sheila, GANGOPADHYAY, Keshab, BARIZUDDIN, Syed, WOOD, Aaron, GANGOPADHYAY, Shubhra, BOK, Sangho
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CHEMISTRY INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MEASURING METALLURGY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PEPTIDES PHYSICS TESTING
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Zusammenfassung:	The invention broadly relates techniques for imaging and medical diagnosis and, more particularly, to the fabrication of flexible plasmonic gratings and the use thereof in detection of biomarkers. A first aspect of the invention provides for techniques for the fabrication of novel, flexible plasmonic gratings that can be inexpensively fabricated onto fiber optic cables, flexible films and substrates with non-uniform surfaces to enhance the imaging resolution. A second aspect of the invention provides for an ultra¬high sensitivity (single molecule counting) biomarker detection platform useable for medical diagnosis based on a fluorescent sandwich ELISA assay performed on a plasmonic grating platform incorporated with a fluorescence detection unit.