NIST chip produces and detects specialized gas for biomedical analysis
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —A chip-scale device that both produces and detects a specialized gas used in biomedical analysis and medical imaging has been built and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Described in Nature Communications, the new microfluidic chip produces polarized (or magnetized) xenon gas and then detects even the faintest magnetic signals from the gas.