Abstract:
Provided is a fluorescence immunoassay sensor chip and a fluorescence immunoassay method, which are capable of measuring, at the same time, a marker requiring high sensitivity due to its low content in a sample solution and a marker not requiring high sensitivity due to its high content in a sample solution. The fluorescence immunoassay sensor chip for use in fluorescence immunoassay for detecting and measuring markers contained in a sample solution includes: a dielectric member; a metal thin film formed on part of a main surface of the dielectric member; a first sensor part formed in a predetermined position on the metal thin film; and a second sensor part directly formed in a predetermined position on the dielectric member, wherein a ligand immobilized in the first sensor part and a ligand immobilized in the second sensor part capture different types of markers.
Abstract:
Technologies for providing optical analysis systems using an integrated computational element with laterally-distributed spectral filters are described. A measurement tool contains an optical element including a substrate and a plurality of spectral filters supported by the substrate and arranged at different lateral positions with respect to a path of light to be received from a sample during operation of the measurement tool. Each spectral filter is formed to transmit or reflect a different subset of wavelengths in a wavelength range. Additionally, each spectral filter has a respective area exposed to the light from the sample, such that the respective areas are related to a property of the sample. The wavelength range can include wavelengths in a range from about 0.2μm to about 25μm. Additionally, the sample can include wellbore fluids and the property of the sample is a property of the wellbore fluids.
Abstract:
A detection device (100) detects an analyte that may be contained in a specimen. The detection device (100) includes a plurality of gold nanoparticles, an optical trapping light source (101), an illumination light source (102), an objective lens (103), an image pick-up device (108), and a computation unit (106). The plurality of gold nanoparticles are each modified with a probe DNA allowing the analyte to specifically adhere thereto. The optical trapping light source (101) emits polarized light for assembling the plurality of gold nanoparticles together. The objective lens (103) focuses and introduces the polarized light into a liquid containing a specimen and the plurality of gold nanoparticles. The image pick-up device (108) receives light from the liquid. The computation unit (106) detects an analyte based on a signal received from the image pick-up device (108).
Abstract:
[Object] Provided is a test system operable with a simplified structure. [Solution] A test system (10) includes a test device (20) and a test device (30) each of which transports and tests a sample. The test device (20) includes a master control unit (25) which performs assignment of samples to the test device (20) and the test device (30), and control of a transport operation of the sample assigned to the test device (20). The test device (30) includes a slave control unit (35) which controls a transport operation of the sample assigned to the test device (30) by the master control unit (25).
Abstract:
A configuration of detecting light from the front face of a light source is the best for confirming the variation of a light quantity, but when a plurality of light sources are present, as many detectors for checking a light quantity as the light sources are necessary and the apparatus configuration becomes complex. In the present invention, a detector 130 for checking a light source light quantity is installed in a reaction container transfer mechanism 117 used commonly for a plurality of detection sections, and the light quantities of light sources 124 are checked with the detector 130.
Abstract:
A fluorescence viewing device 1A is configured to take a difference between one of an image of a first frame and an image of a second frame output from an imaging device 12 and the other of the first frame image and the second frame image stored in an image storage means, whereby clear observed images can be obtained without influence of background light. In the fluorescence viewing device 1A, an exposure time of a fluorescence image acquisition period and an exposure time of a background image acquisition period are different from each other. When the exposure time of the fluorescence image acquisition period and the exposure time of the background image acquisition period are made asymmetric in this manner, the observed images are acquired with good smoothness. Since ON/OFF durations of excitation light also become asymmetric according to the asymmetry of the exposure times, the device can reduce user's feeling of strangeness due to blinking of the excitation light.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for field spectroscopic characterization of seafood is disclosed. A portable NIR spectrometer is connected to an analyzer configured for performing a multivariate analysis of reflection spectra to determine qualitatively the true identities or quantitatively the freshness of seafood samples. The present invention relates to materials characterization and identification, and in particular to spectroscopic characterization of seafood.
Abstract:
According to an example, an apparatus for performing spectroscopy includes an elongated substrate having a shape and size to be inserted into a specimen, wherein the elongated substrate has a first end and a second end. The apparatus also includes a plurality of surface-enhanced spectroscopy (SES) elements positioned on an exterior surface of the elongated substrate at a location between the first end and the second end of the elongated substrate.
Abstract:
In a method for the spatially high-resolved imaging of a structure (2) of a sample (3) that has a luminophore (1), the sample (3) is subjected to luminescence excitation light (7) in a measurement range (5), which luminescence excitation light(7) excites the luminophore (1) from an excitable electronic basic state into an excited luminescent state. The sample (3) is subjected to a intensity distribution of luminescence damping light (8) in the measurement range (5), the intensity distribution having a local minimum (9), and the luminescence damping light returning the luminophore (1) from the excited luminescent state into the excitable electronic basic state. Luminescence light (10) emitted from the measurement range (5) is recorded and is assigned to the position of the local minimum (9) in the sample (3). Prior to being subjected to the luminescent excitation light (7), the sample (3) is subjected to an intensity distribution of excitation prevention light (4) in the measurement range (5), which excitation prevention light transfers the luminophore (1) from the excitable electronic basic state into a protected state, in which the luminophore (1) is protected against electronic excitations from the luminescence excitation light (7) and the luminescence damping light (8). The intensity distribution of the excitation prevention light (4) has a local minimum (6), which overlaps with the local minimum (9) of the intensity distribution of the luminescence damping light (8).