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This chapter reviews recent developments in the field of acoustic manipulation and processing of cells in microfluidic systems and gives an overview of different acoustofluidic operating modalities. Continuous flow-based acoustophoresis and acoustic trapping are key areas of interest. In view of the topic of this publication we have limited this chapter to mainly cover acoustofluidic work that concerns cell handling and cell-based studies. A focus is therefore maintained on developments that demonstrate how microscale acoustofluidic systems can be designed to solve unmet needs in the everyday work of life science laboratories related to cell biology or clinically relevant research.
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Lenshof, A., Johannesson, C., Evander, M., Nilsson, J., Laurell, T. (2017). Acoustic Cell Manipulation. In: Lee, W., Tseng, P., Di Carlo, D. (eds) Microtechnology for Cell Manipulation and Sorting. Microsystems and Nanosystems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44139-9_5
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