Method for specifically detecting analyte using photocurrent, and electrode, measuring cell and measuring device for use therein
    1.
    发明授权
    Method for specifically detecting analyte using photocurrent, and electrode, measuring cell and measuring device for use therein 有权
    使用光电流专门检测分析物的方法,以及用于其中的电极,测量元件和测量装置

    公开(公告)号:US08092670B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-01-10

    申请号:US11992858

    申请日:2006-09-28

    CPC分类号: G01N33/5438

    摘要: A method, an electrode, a measuring cell, and a measuring device are disclosed which can detect and quantitatively determine an analyte having specific bonding properties, in a highly sensitive, simple and accurate manner using photocurrent. This method comprises contacting a working electrode and a counter electrode with an electrolyte medium, wherein the working electrode has an analyte immobilized thereon through a probe substance and wherein the analyte is bonded to a sensitizing dye; irradiating the working electrode with light to photoexcite the sensitizing dye; and detecting photocurrent flowing between the working electrode and the counter electrode, wherein the photocurrent is generated by transfer of electrons from the photoexcited sensitizing dye to the working electrode. The working electrode comprises an electron accepting layer comprising an electron accepting substance capable of accepting electrons released from the sensitizing dye in response to photoexcitation, wherein the probe substance is supported on a surface of the electron accepting layer. The electron accepting substance is an oxide semiconductor having an energy level lower than that of a lowest unoccupied molecular orbit (LUMO) of the sensitizing dye. The electrolyte medium comprises an electrolyte and at least one solvent selected from an aprotic solvent and a protic solvent, wherein the electrolyte comprises a salt capable of providing an oxidized sensitizing dye with electrons.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种方法,电极,测量单元和测量装置,其可以使用光电流以高灵敏度,简单和准确的方式检测和定量地确定具有特定粘合特性的分析物。 该方法包括使工作电极和对电极与电解质介质接触,其中工作电极通过探针物质固定在其上的分析物,并且其中分析物与致敏染料结合; 用光照射工作电极对光敏染料进行光刺激; 并且检测在工作电极和对电极之间流动的光电流,其中通过将电子从光激发敏化染料转移到工作电极而产生光电流。 工作电极包括电子接受层,其包含能够响应于光激发而接受从感光染料释放的电子的电子接受物质,其中探针物质被负载在电子接受层的表面上。 电子接受物质是具有比敏化染料的最低未占据分子轨道(LUMO)的能级更低的氧化物半导体。 电解质介质包括电解质和至少一种选自非质子溶剂和质子溶剂的溶剂,其中电解质包含能够提供氧化的致敏染料与电子的盐。

    Method for Specifically Detecting Analyte Using Photocurrent, and Electrode, Measuring Cell and Measuring Device for Use Therein
    2.
    发明申请
    Method for Specifically Detecting Analyte Using Photocurrent, and Electrode, Measuring Cell and Measuring Device for Use Therein 有权
    使用光电流特异性检测分析物的方法,电极,测量单元及其使用的测量装置

    公开(公告)号:US20090294305A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-12-03

    申请号:US11992858

    申请日:2006-09-28

    IPC分类号: G01N27/26 G01F1/64

    CPC分类号: G01N33/5438

    摘要: A method, an electrode, a measuring cell, and a measuring device are disclosed which can detect and quantitatively determine an analyte having specific bonding properties, in a highly sensitive, simple and accurate manner using photocurrent. This method comprises contacting a working electrode and a counter electrode with an electrolyte medium, wherein the working electrode has an analyte immobilized thereon through a probe substance and wherein the analyte is bonded to a sensitizing dye; irradiating the working electrode with light to photoexcite the sensitizing dye; and detecting photocurrent flowing between the working electrode and the counter electrode, wherein the photocurrent is generated by transfer of electrons from the photoexcited sensitizing dye to the working electrode. The working electrode comprises an electron accepting layer comprising an electron accepting substance capable of accepting electrons released from the sensitizing dye in response to photoexcitation, wherein the probe substance is supported on a surface of the electron accepting layer. The electron accepting substance is an oxide semiconductor having an energy level lower than that of a lowest unoccupied molecular orbit (LUMO) of the sensitizing dye. The electrolyte medium comprises an electrolyte and at least one solvent selected from an aprotic solvent and a protic solvent, wherein the electrolyte comprises a salt capable of providing an oxidized sensitizing dye with electrons.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种方法,电极,测量单元和测量装置,其可以使用光电流以高灵敏度,简单和准确的方式检测和定量地确定具有特定粘合特性的分析物。 该方法包括使工作电极和对电极与电解质介质接触,其中工作电极通过探针物质固定在其上的分析物,并且其中分析物与致敏染料结合; 用光照射工作电极对光敏染料进行光刺激; 并且检测在工作电极和对电极之间流动的光电流,其中通过将电子从光激发敏化染料转移到工作电极而产生光电流。 工作电极包括电子接受层,其包含能够响应于光激发而从感光染料中释放的电子的受电子物质,其中探针物质被负载在电子接受层的表面上。 电子接受物质是具有比敏化染料的最低未占据分子轨道(LUMO)的能级更低的氧化物半导体。 电解质介质包括电解质和至少一种选自非质子溶剂和质子溶剂的溶剂,其中电解质包含能够提供氧化的致敏染料与电子的盐。

    Establishing compatibility between two- and three-dimensional optical coherence tomography scans
    3.
    发明授权
    Establishing compatibility between two- and three-dimensional optical coherence tomography scans 有权
    建立二维和三维光学相干断层扫描的兼容性

    公开(公告)号:US09514513B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-06

    申请号:US13056510

    申请日:2009-08-06

    IPC分类号: A61B3/10 G06T3/00

    CPC分类号: G06T3/0075 A61B3/102

    摘要: Advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have prompted a transition from time domain OCT, providing 2D OCT images, to spectral domain OCT, which has a 3D imaging capability. Yet conventional technology offers little toward the goal of inter-device compatibility between extant 2D OCT images and newer 3D OCT images for the same or comparable subjects, as in the context of ongoing monitoring the quantitative status of a patient's eyes. The inventive methodology is particularly useful to identify the scan location of tissue in a 2D OCT image within the 3D OCT volumetric data, thereby allowing clinicians to image a patient via 3D OCT, based on available 2D OCT images, with minimal inter-device variation.

    摘要翻译: 光学相干断层扫描(OCT)的进展促使从具有3D成像能力的光谱域OCT向时域OCT提供2D OCT图像的转变。 然而,传统技术对于相同或可比较的对象的现有2D OCT图像和较新的3D OCT图像之间的设备间兼容性的目标几乎没有提供,如在持续监测患者眼睛的定量状态的情况下。 本发明的方法对于在3D OCT体积数据内识别2D OCT图像中的组织的扫描位置特别有用,从而允许临床医生基于可用的2D OCT图像以最小的装置间变化通过3D OCT对患者进行成像。

    Optical gate switch
    4.
    发明授权
    Optical gate switch 有权
    光栅开关

    公开(公告)号:US09002146B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-04-07

    申请号:US13985699

    申请日:2012-02-15

    摘要: An object of the present invention is to realize an optical gate switch of a monolithic integration type which can avoid problems of losses caused by light coupling of a phase modulation unit to a interferometer optical circuit unit, and can be minimized by integration. The optical gate switch according to the present invention includes an optical waveguide wafer in which a quantum well having a phase modulation effect which is generated by an intersubband transition is set as a core layer; a Michelson interferometer formed on the optical waveguide wafer; and a variable light intensity attenuation unit adjusting a light balance of an interferometer in one of reflection side arms of the Michelson interferometer reflection.

    摘要翻译: 本发明的目的是实现一种单片集成型的光栅开关,其可以避免相位调制单元与干涉仪光电路单元的光耦合引起的损耗问题,并且可以通过集成最小化。 根据本发明的光栅开关包括光波导晶片,其中具有通过跨带过渡产生的相位调制效应的量子阱被设置为核心层; 形成在光波导晶片上的迈克尔逊干涉仪; 以及可变光强度衰减单元,其调节迈克尔逊干涉仪反射的反射侧臂之一中的干涉仪的光平衡。

    Method and apparatus for segmenting an image in order to locate a part thereof
    6.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for segmenting an image in order to locate a part thereof 有权
    用于分割图像以便定位其一部分的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08441481B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-05-14

    申请号:US13007449

    申请日:2011-01-14

    IPC分类号: G06T17/00

    摘要: A method is disclosed to automatically segment 3D and higher-dimensional images into two subsets without user intervention, with no topological restriction on the solution, and in such a way that the solution is an optimal in a precisely defined optimization criterion, including an exactly defined degree of smoothness. A minimum-cut algorithm is used on a graph devised so that the optimization criterion translates into the minimization of the graph cut. The minimum cut thus found is interpreted as the segmentation with desired property.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种自动将3D和更高维度图像分割成两个子集的方法,无需用户干预,对解决方案没有拓扑限制,并且以这样的方式使解决方案在精确定义的优化标准中是最佳的,包括精确定义 光滑程度。 在设计的图上使用最小切割算法,使得优化标准转化为图形切割的最小化。 因此找到的最小切割被解释为具有期望属性的分割。

    NORMALIZATION OF RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS MADE BY TIME DOMAIN-OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY
    7.
    发明申请
    NORMALIZATION OF RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS MADE BY TIME DOMAIN-OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY 有权
    通过时域光学相干测量法,对神经纤维层厚度测量进行正规化

    公开(公告)号:US20130077046A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-28

    申请号:US13510732

    申请日:2010-11-19

    IPC分类号: A61B3/10

    摘要: A scan location matching (SLM) method identifies conventional time domain optical coherence tomography (TD-OCT) circle scan locations within three-dimensional spectral domain OCT scan volumes. A technique uses both the SLM algorithm and a mathematical retinal nerve fiber bundle distribution (RNFBD) model, which is a simplified version of the anatomical retinal axon bundle distribution pattern, to normalize TD-OCT thickness measurements for the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) of an off-centered TD-OCT circle scan to a virtual location, centered on the optic nerve head. The RNFBD model eliminates scan-to-scan RNFL thickness measurement variation caused by manual placement of TD-OCT circle scan.

    摘要翻译: 扫描位置匹配(SLM)方法识别三维频域OCT扫描体积内的常规时域光学相干断层扫描(TD-OCT)圆扫描位置。 一种技术使用SLM算法和数字视网膜神经纤维束分布(RNFBD)模型,其是解剖视网膜轴突束分布模式的简化版本,以对视网膜神经纤维层(RNFL)的TD-OCT厚度测量进行归一化, 的偏心的TD-OCT圆周扫描到以视神经头为中心的虚拟位置。 RNFBD模型消除了由手动放置TD-OCT圆形扫描引起的扫描到扫描RNFL厚度测量变化。