Generation of spatially-averaged excitation-emission map in heterogeneous tissue
US6597932B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 20, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jul 22, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 27, 2021 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2021/6484
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An instrument for evaluating fluorescence of a heterogeneous tissue includes means for exciting a two-dimensional portion of the tissue surface with excitation radiation at a plurality of excitation wavelengths, means for collecting emission radiation from the two-dimensional portion of the tissue surface simultaneously with excitation of the portion, and means for forming a two-dimensional excitation-emission map of the excitation radiation and the simultaneously collected emission radiation and spatially averaging the excitation and emission radiation.
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