Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing – Optical result – With fluorescence or luminescence
Patent
1995-09-14
1997-06-17
Chin, Christopher L.
Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing
Optical result
With fluorescence or luminescence
385 12, 385 39, 385 42, 385 43, 422 55, 422 8205, 422 8208, 422 8211, 4352871, 4352872, 4352881, 4352887, 435808, 436164, 436165, 436527, 436805, 436810, G01N 33552, G01N 3353
Patent
active
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ABSTRACT:
An optical system which may be a component of apparatus for assaying a fluid sample with radiation is capable of exciting fluorescence in fluorescent material and includes a totally internally reflecting, unitary elongated substrate transmissive to both the excitation radiation and to the fluorescence. The fluorescent material includes at least a moiety of an antibody-antigen complex that includes a tag that will provide the fluorescence when excited by an evanescent wave generated by the excitation radiation. The substrate includes an elongated fiber and an integral lens formed to guide the optical radiation into the fiber within the bounds of a critical angle to assure total internal reflectance. A hollow elongated enclosure is disposed concentrically about and spaced from the fiber so as to provide an interspace of capillary dimensions. A test implement supports the elongated substrate such that the fluid sample is caused to flow onto the fiber and, by capillary action, into the interspace between the fiber and the enclosure. The apparatus further includes a source of the excitation radiation, refractive means for focusing the radiation toward the lens substantially in the region thereof at which evanescent wave coupling occurs, detector means for detecting fluorescence radiation emitted from an end of the fiber responsively to the excitation radiation, and optics frame means for mounting all components in fixed relation to the lens for introducing the excitation radiation into the lens within the critical angle.
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Lyst, Jr. James E.
Neel Thomas Gary
Boehringer Mannheim Corporation
Chin Christopher L.
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