Extraction of circulating tumor cells from blood using acoustophoresis
Augustsson P., Magnusson C., Grenvall C., Lilja H., Laurell T.
We present, for the first time, separation of three different prostate cancer cell lines from leukocyte fractions by means of continuous flow acoustophoresis. This flow-through separation approach, which utilize acoustophoretic forces to extract CTCs from blood has a significant advantage over affinity based methods in the sense that it comprises a non-contact and label free separation of CTCs from blood.