University of Delaware

C M Pleass

Charles S Ih

Dean Dey

Bin Zheng

An improved method and system of monitoring and identifying microbiota swimming in a fluid or moving across surfaces in a fluid provides a sensitive method for rapidly measuring very small changes in activity, and detecting and identifying individual microbes in relatively large volumes of fluid, even in the presence of detritus. The system comprises a laser station, a sample collector station, a picture taking station and a monitoring station.

Laser doppler spectrometer for the statistical study of the behavior of

A differential laser Doppler biospectrometer for monitoring microbiota movement in a medium, which, preferably is quiescent. One of the laser beams is shifted in frequency to enable monitoring of small movement data velocity and/or direction). Average size of individuals and growth rate of the total number of organisms in suspension can be obtained. Exogenous stimuli, such as electric and magnetic fields, trace chemical additions or EM radiation are provided at selected times in the natural rhythm circadian cycle of the microbiota, and several such stimuli can be applied simultaneously. The measurement system is so sensitive that it can detect movement changes due to very weak energy stimuli transmitted to microbiota free to move in an established zone. In addition, holographic recordings of the microbiota can be made.

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Havre de Grace, MD, United States of America

C M Pleass