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Rapid and Digital Detection of Inflammatory Biomarkers Enabled by a Novel Portable Nanoplasmonic Imager

Hatice Altug, Filiz Yesilköy, Alexander Belushkin

New point-of-care diagnostic devices are urgently needed for rapid and accurate diagnosis, particularly in the management of life-threatening infections and sepsis, where immediate treatment is key. Sepsis is a critical condition caused by systemic respons ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Impact of Lanthanide Nanomaterials on Photonic Devices and Smart Applications

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Zhenyu Liu

Half a century after its initial emergence, lanthanide photonics is facing a profound remodeling induced by the upsurge of nanomaterials. Lanthanide-doped nanomaterials hold promise for bioapplications and photonic devices because they ally the unmatched a ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2018

Near-Optimal Noisy Group Testing via Separate Decoding of Items

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern matching, and more. In this pa ...

2018

An ecotoxicological view on neurotoxicity assessment

Wolfgang Schulz

The numbers of potential neurotoxicants in the environment are raising and pose a great risk for humans and the environment. Currently neurotoxicity assessment is mostly performed to predict and prevent harm to human populations. Despite all the efforts in ...

SPRINGEROPEN2018

Nanoscale Sensors for Ultrasensitive Label-free Detection of Cancer Biomarkers and Monitoring of Therapeutic Compounds

Ioulia Tzouvadaki

Prostate cancer is a life-threatening malignant disease, one the most common cancer types in men and leading cause of death among men because of cancer. Considering the state of the art for the diagnosis of prostate cancer a man overall has to suffer uncom ...

EPFL2017

Definition of Accurate Reference Synchrophasors for Static and Dynamic Characterization of PMUs

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo, Marco Pignati, Daniele Colangelo

The calibration of phasor measurement units (PMUs) consists of comparing coordinated universal time time-aligned phasors (synchrophasors) measured by the PMU under test, against reference synchrophasors generated through a PMU calibrator. The IEEE Standard ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Phase Transitions in Group Testing

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett

The group testing problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of items that are ``defective'' based on a set of possibly noisy tests, and arises in areas such as medical testing, fault detection, communication protocols, pattern matching, and ...

2016

Quantification of low molecular weight drugs

Anna Ferretti

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is considered one of the most successful approaches to personalized medicine. However, the accuracy requirements on the quantification of drug concentration and the challenges in the dose adjustment limit the application o ...

EPFL2015

A Wearable Device For Physical and Emotional Health Monitoring

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Srinivasan Murali

Personal health monitoring systems are emerging as promising solutions to develop ultra-small, portable devices that can continuously monitor and process several vital body parameters. In this work, we present a wearable device for physical and emotional h ...

2015

Label-free Analytics by Transmission Localized-SPR and its Application to Small Molecules Monitoring in Serum

Giulia Cappi

In the frame of therapeutic drug monitoring and personalized medicine, point-of-care systems (POCs) that can help overcome long waiting times for results and costly procedures of clinical tests are highly desirable. At present, the detection of low-molecul ...

EPFL2014

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