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Centrifugal separation is considered as a required procedure for preparing blood samples. However, the use of centrifuge is associated with several issues, including the potential for red blood cell (RBC) lysis, clotting activation, and RBC adhesions in the tube. In this study, an ultrasonic transducer is employed to separate RBCs or diluent from blood sample. The ultrasonic radiation force is much smaller than the centrifugal force acting in centrifuge, it can avoid critical issues occurring under centrifuge. Then, the RBC aggregation and blood viscosity of the blood sample are obtained using the microfluidic technique. According to the numerical results, ultrasonic transducers exhibited a maximum quality factor at an excitation frequency of 2.1 MHz. Periodic pattern of acoustic pressure fields were visualized experimentally as a column mode. The half wavelength obtained was as 0.5 \u03bb = 0.378 \u00b1 0.07 mm. The experimental results agreed with the analytical estimation sufficiently. An acoustic power of 2 W was selected carefully for separating RBCs or diluent from various blood samples (i.e., Hct = 20% ~ 50%; diluent: plasma, 1x phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), and dextran solution). The present method was employed to separate fixed blood samples which tended to stack inside the tube while using the centrifuge. Fixed RBCs were collected easily with an ultrasonic transducer. After various fixed blood samples with different base solutions (i.e., glutaraldehyde solution, 1x PBS, and dextran solution) were prepared using the present method, RBC aggregation and the viscosity of the blood sample are successfully obtained. In the near future, the present method will be integrated into ex vivo or in vitro fluidic circuit for measuring multiple mechanical properties of blood samples for a certain longer period.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20082284","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,21]],"date-time":"2020-04-21T04:49:38Z","timestamp":1587444578000},"page":"2284","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Ultrasound Standing Wave-Based Cell-to-liquid Separation for Measuring Viscosity and Aggregation of Blood Sample"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Gwangho","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"PROTECHKOREA, 120-3 Nanosandan-ro, Samtae-ri, Nam-myeon, Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do 57248, Korea"}]},{"given":"Sanghwa","family":"Jeong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chosun University, 309 Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju 61452, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5047-3012","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang Jun","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chosun University, 309 Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju 61452, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-017-01985-w","article-title":"Microfluidic system for monitoring temporal variations of hemorheological properties and platelet adhesion in LPS-injected rats","volume":"7","author":"Yeom","year":"2017","journal-title":"Sci. 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