Quantification of the number of adsorbed bacteria on an optical waveguide
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2010-06-30T00:00:00Z
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Y-P. Yeh and J.J. Ramsden, Quantification of the number of adsorbed bacteria on an optical waveguide, Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, Volume 10, 2010, Issue 2, Pages 53–54
Abstract
A simple method is presented for determining the number of bacteria adsorbed on a planar optical waveguide from measurements of a single effective refractive index. It requires only knowledge of the shape and mean size of the bacteria.