Method and apparatus for imaging a sample on a device

Patent · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2001

OSTI ID:873811

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

A method and apparatus for imaging a sample are provided. An electromagnetic radiation source generates excitation radiation which is sized by excitation optics to a line. The line is directed at a sample resting on a support and excites a plurality of regions on the sample. Collection optics collect response radiation reflected from the sample I and image the reflected radiation. A detector senses the reflected radiation and is positioned to permit discrimination between radiation reflected from a certain focal plane in the sample and certain other planes within the sample.

• Research Organization: Affymax Research Institute
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-92ER81275
• Assignee: Affymetrix Technologies, N.V. (Curacao, AN)
• Patent Number(s): US 6252236
• OSTI ID: 873811
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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