Evaluating the Accuracy of Impedance Flow Cytometry with Cell-Sized Liposomes.

Electrical properties of single cells are important label-free biomarkers of disease and immunity. At present, impedance flow cytometry (IFC) provides important means for high throughput characterization of single-cell electrical properties. However, the accuracy of the spherical single-shell electrical model widely used in IFC has not been well evaluated due to the lack of reliable and reproducible single-shell model particles with true-value electrical parameters as benchmarks. Herein, a method is proposed to evaluate the accuracy of the single-cell electrical model with cell-sized unilamellar liposomes synthesized through double emulsion droplet microfluidics. The influence of three key dimension parameters (i.e., the measurement channel width w, height h, and electrode gap g) in the single-cell electrical model were evaluated through experiment. It was found that the relative error of the electrical intrinsic parameters measured by IFC is less than 10% when the size of the sensing zone is close to the measured particles. It further reveals that h has the greatest influence on the measurement accuracy, and the maximum relative error can reach ∼30%. Error caused by g is slightly larger than w. This provides a solid guideline for the design of IFC measurement system. It is envisioned that this method can advance further improvement of IFC and accurate electrical characterization of single cells.

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