Photo-Thermal Induced Optical Scattering Modulation Sensor for Malaria Diagnosis

Memeu, Daniel Maitethia; Sarroney, Merenga Abdallah; Ciira, Wa Maina

dc.contributor.author	Memeu, Daniel Maitethia
dc.contributor.author	Sarroney, Merenga Abdallah
dc.contributor.author	Ciira, Wa Maina
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-19T08:21:14Z
dc.date.available	2018-09-19T08:21:14Z
dc.date.issued	2018-09-13
dc.identifier.citation	Memeu, D.M., Sarroney, M.A. and Maina, C. (2018) Photo-Thermal Induced Optical Scattering Modulation Sensor for Malaria Diagnosis. Open Journal of Biophysics, 8, 185-193. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojbiphy.2018.84014	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2164-5396
dc.identifier.uri	http://41.89.227.156:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/781
dc.description.abstract	Malaria is one of the leading killer diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the disease is curable, early and accurate diagnosis is key to effective therapy. Existing malaria diagnostic techniques have low detection accuracy especially when the parasite load in the blood is low. In this paper, we report on a simple photo-thermal based technique for detection of the Plasmodium parasites’ biomarker (hemozoin) in blood smear samples. The technique has demonstrated 100% Plasmodium detection sensitivity and specificity from the ten blood smear test samples used.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Open Journal of Biophysics	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 8;
dc.subject	Photothermal Induced Optical Scattering Modulation, Photoacoustic Probing, Hemozoin, Hemoglobin, Probe Beam, Excitation Beam	en_US
dc.title	Photo-Thermal Induced Optical Scattering Modulation Sensor for Malaria Diagnosis	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US