Abstract:
A diagnostic device adapted to retain a fluid sample to be analyzed until it is desired to initiate the analytical test is described. The device includes a deformable material layer, a well for holding a fluid sample, a porous material and a diagnostic assay element.
Abstract:
THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO PHOTOGRAPHY AND, MORE PARTICULARLY, TO DIFFUSION TRANSFER PROCESS PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM UNITS WHICH COMPRISE A PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT ADAPTED TO PROVIDE, BY DIFFUSION TRANSFER PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING, SELECTIVE DYE IMAGE RECORDATION OF INCIDENT ACTINIC RADIATION AS A FUNCTON OF THE POINT-TO-POINT DEGREE OF PHOTOSENSTIVE ELEMENT EXPOSURE, WHICH FILM UNIT INCLUDES A PLURALITY OF ESSENTIAL LAYERS INCLUDING A PHOTOSENSITIVE SILVER HALIDE LAYER HAVING ASSOCIATED THEREWITH DYE DEVELOPER, I.E., A DYE WHICH IS A SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT, WHICH IS DIFFUSIBLE DURING PROCESSING AS A FUNCTION OF THE POINT-TO- POINT DEGREE OF SILVER HALIDE LAYER EXPOSURE TO INCIDENT ACTINIC RADIATION AND A LAYER ADAPTED TO RECEIVE IMAGE-FORMING MATERIAL DIFFUSING THERETO, AT LEAST ONE OF THE LAYERS OF THE FILM UNIT COMPRISING A PARTICULATE DISPERSION OF A SYNTHETIC POLYMER-SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT COMPLEX DISSOCIABLE AS A FUNCTION OF PH TO PROVIDE A PROCESSING COMPOSITION SOLUBLE SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT; AND TO SPECIFIED DIFFUSION TRANSFER PROCESSES EMPLOYING SUCH FILM UNITS.