Method for assessing lung maturity using fluorescence from napht

Details Method for assessing lung maturity using fluorescence from napht Method for assessing lung maturity using fluorescence from napht

1991-11-05

1993-07-13

Housel, James C.

Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing

Optical result

With fluorescence or luminescence

436907, 356318, 250362, 2504591, 128665, G01N 2177

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052273083

ABSTRACT:
A method for assessing lung maturity in a fetus or an infant comprises adding a fluorescent dye to a pulmonary effluent, causing the dye to fluoresce by illumination with an excitation wavelength of monochromatic light, and measuring the intensity of the fluorescence at two different wavelengths. Alternatively, the method comprises sequential illumination with two different excitation wavelengths and measurement of the intensity of fluorescence caused by each excitation wavelength at a single emission wavelength.

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