Abstract
An experimental verification of simulated flow dynamics in a novel design of microfluidic device can be difficult, especially, in devices such as mixers or deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) arrays. Doppler optical coherence tomography (DOCT) is one of the visualization modalities used to measure flow velocity profiles in microfluidic channels, capillaries and microvascular networks. Previously conducted flow measurements with high speed spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) devices have had typical axial resolution in the range few microns which can be insufficient for accurate mapping of flow dynamics in microchannels. This paper introduces a high-speed SD-OCT system with an axial resolution of 1.2µm in air (below 1µm in water) to evaluate flow in a microfluidic chip. The A-line acquisition rate of the device is 123kHz. Flow velocities from 1% Intralipid suspension are obtained across the microfluidic channel with the specified height of 20µm and the width of 50µm. The results show that the utilized SD-OCT device can visualize flows as close as 1µm from the channel wall. The flow rate of 0.63µl/min, determined from the cross-sectional velocity map, agreed well with the value of 0.67µl/min set to the syringe pump.
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