Methods and apparatus for detecting lesion-induced resonances in deoxyribonucleic acid via millimeter or submillimeter wave spectroscopy

US6500618B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignees

• The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology · US
• The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · US

Inventors

• Dwight L. Woolard · Neptune, US
• James O. Jensen · Sunnyvale, US
• William R. Loerop · Aberdeen, US
• David Rhodes · Solvang, US
• Hong Cui · Hoboken, US
• Janet L Jensen · Aberdeen, US
• Alan C. Samuels · Havre de Grace, US
• Thomas E. Koscica · Clark, US
• Harry Salem · Cheltenham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N21/3581
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for measuring the millimeter or submillimeter wave absorption spectra in a sample of DNA molecules are provided.