Abstract
Timely diagnosis of acute diseases improves treatment outcomes and saves lives, but it requires fast and precision quantification of biomarkers. Here, we report a time-resolved digital immunoassay based on plasmonic imaging of binding of single nanoparticles to biomarkers captured on a sensor surface. The real-time and high contrast of plasmonic imaging lead to fast and precise counting of the individual biomarkers over a wide dynamic range. We demonstrated the detection principle, evaluated the performance of the method using procalcitonin (PCT) as an example, and achieved a limit of detection of ∼2.8 pg/mL, dynamic range of 4.2-12500 pg/mL, for a total detection time of ∼25 min.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 8609-8617 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | ACS nano |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 27 2019 |
Keywords
- plasmonic imaging
- procalcitonin
- rapid and sensitive quantification
- single nanoparticles analysis
- time-resolved digital immunoassay
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- General Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy