[미국특허]
System and method for metered dosage illumination in a bioanalysis or other system
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
F21V-009/16
G01J-001/58
G01T-001/10
G21H-003/02
G21K-005/00
H01J-065/06
H01J-065/08
H05B-037/02
H05B-039/04
H01J-003/14
H01J-005/16
G01N-021/85
출원번호
US-0007535
(2011-01-14)
등록번호
US-8389957
(2013-03-05)
발명자
/ 주소
Jaffe, Claudia B.
Jaffe, Steven M.
Larsen, David
출원인 / 주소
Lumencor, Inc.
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12인용 특허 :
144
초록▼
A system and method for metered dosage illumination in a bioanalysis or other system. In accordance with an embodiment, an illumination system or subsystem is described that can provide optimized amounts of excitation light within the short exposure times necessary to measure fast biological activit
A system and method for metered dosage illumination in a bioanalysis or other system. In accordance with an embodiment, an illumination system or subsystem is described that can provide optimized amounts of excitation light within the short exposure times necessary to measure fast biological activity. The amount of light can be precisely measured to provide quantitative results. The light flux can also be precisely controlled to generate only a prescribed minimum amount of light, in order to reduce adverse lighting effects on both fluors and samples. Although the examples herein illustrate the providing of metered dosage illumination in the context of a bioanalysis system, the techniques can be similarly used to provide metered dosage illumination in the context of other types of system.
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1. A system for providing metered dosage illumination for use in a bioanalysis or other system, comprising: a light engine that can provide a plurality of different colors of light as a light output;a light detector that can detect an indication of light flux at the light output;a light-to-frequency
1. A system for providing metered dosage illumination for use in a bioanalysis or other system, comprising: a light engine that can provide a plurality of different colors of light as a light output;a light detector that can detect an indication of light flux at the light output;a light-to-frequency converter that can convert the indication of light flux as detected by the light detector to a pulse train, the frequency of which pulse train is proportional to the light flux;a counter that can compare an ongoing count as indicated by the pulse train, to a preset reference count for a particular color; andwherein, during operation, the illumination system determines a reference count for each color,for an exposure period, enables the light engine to turn on a particular color,monitors the indication of light flux at the light output, as detected by the light detector and converted to the pulse train counted by the counter, andwhen the counter reaches the reference count, disables the particular color currently provided by the light engine, to select a different color. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the light detector is a photodetector for measuring fluorescence that gates on the illumination, and is gated off when the light-to-frequency count equals the reference count. 3. The system of claim 1, wherein the system triggers on the light detector for quantitative measurements and gates the detector off when the frequency detector count equals a prescribed amount in the reference counter. 4. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a camera for measuring fluorescence, wherein the system gates on the illumination and is gated off when the light to frequency detector count equals the reference count. 5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a camera for imaging and wherein the system gates the camera off when the frequency detector count equals a prescribed amount in the reference counter. 6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is used as part of a bioanalysis system. 7. The system of claim 6, wherein the system is used for detection of fluorescent tags or fluors in a biological sample. 8. The system of claim 7, wherein the system is used for one or more of quantitative analyses, or temporally fast analyses, such as fluorescence imaging, gene expression analysis, various types of sequencing, high resolution fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence life time measurements, various forms of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Microscopy and high content screening. 9. A method for providing metered dosage illumination for use in a bioanalysis or other system, comprising the steps of: providing a light engine that can provide a plurality of different colors of light as a light output;providing a light detector that can detect an indication of light flux at the light output;providing a light-to-frequency converter that can convert the indication of light flux as detected by the light detector to a pulse train, the frequency of which pulse train is proportional to the light flux;providing a counter that can compare an ongoing count as indicated by the pulse train, to a preset reference count for a particular color; andduring operation of the illumination system determining a reference count for each color,for an exposure period, enabling the light engine to turn on a particular color,monitoring the indication of light flux at the light output, as detected by the light detector and converted to the pulse train counted by the counter, andwhen the counter reaches the reference count, disabling the particular color currently provided by the light engine, to select a different color.
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