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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2008
Applicant:
Edward F. Leonard, Bronxville, NY (US);
Inventor:
Edward F. Leonard, Bronxville, NY (US);
Assignee:
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 37/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A blood treatment device provides a photopheresis treatment using a microfluidic separation channel to separate blood components into layers The layering caused by laminar flow in the microfluidic separation channel allows light to be projected through plasma onto leukocytes without hindrance by erythrocytes.