Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for multiplexed imaging of spectrally-similar fluorophores
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Application No.: US17132628Application Date: 2020-12-23
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Publication No.: US11703454B2Publication Date: 2023-07-18
- Inventor: Jae-Byum Chang , Young-Gyu Yoon , Junyoung Seo , Yeonbo Sim
- Applicant: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Agency: Occhiuti & Rohlicek LLP
- Priority: KR 20200000976 2020.01.03 KR 20200088091 2020.07.16
- Main IPC: G01N21/64
- IPC: G01N21/64 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
Multiplexed fluorescent imaging which is essential for finding out how various biomolecules are spatially distributed in cells or tissues is disclosed. The present disclosure may obtain 10 or more different biomolecule images with one labeling and imaging by newly designing selection of fluorophores, detection spectral ranges, and signal unmixing algorithm. The present disclosure is a blind unmixing technology for unmixing an image without an emission spectrum of fluorophore, and in this technology, 4 pairs of fluorophores are used, and each pair consists of two fluorophores in which emission spectra are overlapped. Each pair of fluorophores is strongly excited by only one excitation laser. Two images with different detection spectral ranges are obtained for each pair, and two images are unmixed via mutual information minimization without fluorophore emission spectrum information. Two images also may be unmixed via Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization and fluorescence measurement based unmixing. This signal unmixing is repeated for each pair of fluorophores. Furthermore, a total of 10 or more fluorophores may be simultaneously used by adding two large stoke's shift fluorophores emitting light in wavelength ranges that does not overlap with the emission spectra of the above 8 fluorophores.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210208076A1 Method and Apparatus for Multiplexed Imaging of Spectrally-Similar Fluorophores Public/Granted day:2021-07-08
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