Method and apparatus for imaging a sample on a device

Patent · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:870702

Trulson, Mark ^[1]; Stern, David ^[2]; Fiekowsky, Peter ^[3]; Rava, Richard ^[4]; Walton, Ian ^[5]; Fodor, Stephen P. A. ^[4]

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1. Santa Clara, CA
2. Mountain View, CA
3. Los Altos, CA
4. Palo Alto, CA
5. Menlo Park, CA

The present invention provides methods and systems for detecting a labeled marker on a sample located on a support. The imaging system comprises a body for immobilizing the support, an excitation radiation source and excitation optics to generate and direct the excitation radiation at the sample. In response, labeled material on the sample emits radiation which has a wavelength that is different from the excitation wavelength, which radiation is collected by collection optics and imaged onto a detector which generates an image of the sample.

• Research Organization: Affymax Research Institute
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-92ER81275
• Assignee: Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5578832
• OSTI ID: 870702
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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