Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

National Institute of Radiological Science, Science and Technology Agency

Kazumasa Sato

Yoichi Katsumoto

Marcaurele Brun

Shinji Omori

Yoshihito Hayashi

Yukihisa Miya

Hidehiko Kakinuma

Akinori Iida

Akira Shirakura

Koji Ashizaki

Kenji Ikeda

Shigeyuki Baba

Hirokazu Tatsuta

Tetsuro Kuwayama

Tadao Sasaki

Tomoyuki Umetsu

Masahiro Endo

Mitsuru Harada

Daisuke Terakado

Tetsuya Sekiguchi

Masahiro Kusakabe

Hirotaka Sugiyama

Isao Tamaki

Héloïse Cockenpot

Marc-Aurele Brun

Yoichi Hishijima

Tsutomu Okazaki

Yukio Tateno

Masao Jinbo

Hirokazu Kimura

Motoharu Hagiwara

Yasukazu Sato

Shigeru Takagi

Yoshito Hayashi

Keiwa Sakai

A data generation method according to an embodiment includes: an imaging step (S) of capturing, for each of lines for scanning an imaging target, a plurality of fluorescence images generated by the imaging target for a respective plurality of fluorescence wavelengths and acquiring data of the captured plurality of fluorescence images in arrangement order of the lines and a rearrangement step (S) of changing the arrangement order of the data of the plurality of fluorescence images acquired in the imaging step from the arrangement order of the lines to arrangement order of for each of the plurality of fluorescence wavelengths.

Data generation method, fluorescence observation system, and information processing apparatus

Provided is an impedance measuring device for biological samples including one or a plurality of biological sample holding units configured to hold a biological sample, an applying unit configured to apply an AC voltage to a pair of electrodes in contact with the biological sample held by the biological sample holding unit, a measuring unit configured to measure an impedance of the biological sample obtained by an AC voltage being applied to the biological sample by the applying unit, and a measurement condition control unit configured to control a measuring time and/or a measuring frequency in the measuring unit.

Impedance measuring device for biological samples and impedance measuring system for biological samples

A contact structure body for use in a measuring device. The contact structure includes a separator that physically separates a sample holder from a measuring circuit, and a contact probe configured to electrically connect an electrode of the sample holder to the measuring circuit, the contact probe comprising. The contact structure body may be part of a system for determining a characteristic of a sample. The system includes a sample holder for holding sample. The sample holder includes an electrode. The system also includes a measuring circuit for measuring at least one property of the sample.

Contact structure body electrical measuring device for biological samples

There is provided a microparticle analysis apparatus including a sample channel configured to receive liquid containing a plurality of microparticles, a first pair of electrodes configured to form an alternating electric field in at least a part of the sample channel, a measuring part configured to measure impedance between the first pair of electrodes, an analyzing part configured to calculate property values of the microparticles from the impedance measured in the measuring part, and a determining part configured to determine whether data of the impedance measured in the measuring part is derived from the microparticles.

Microparticle analysis apparatus and microparticle analysis system

A video playback system includes a video distribution server and at least one information processing device. The video distribution server includes a video distribution portion that performs streaming distribution of a video stream, an alternative video distribution portion that distributes an alternative video, and a control information distribution portion that distributes control information. The information processing device includes a receiving portion that receives the video stream, the alternative video, and the control information, a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information, a video stream playback portion that performs streaming playback of the video stream, an alternative video playback portion that plays back the stored alternative video, and a playback switching control portion that, based on the stored control information, controls switching between the streaming playback and the playback of the alternative video.

Information processing device, video playback method, program, and video playback system

A cell sorting apparatus includes a flow channel through which fluid including cells flows, an electric-field application section capable of applying an electric field having a gradient in a direction different from the flowing direction of the fluid at a first position on the flow channel in accordance with a cell sorting signal requesting an operation to sort the cells, and a flow splitting section configured to split the cells changing their flowing directions due to a dielectrophoretic force caused by application of the electric field at a second position on the downstream side of the first position on the flow channel.

Cell sorting apparatus, cell sorting chip and cell sorting method

Provided is a sorting apparatus including: a flow channel device including a flow channel through which a fluid including particles flows and an operation electrode portion that causes a dielectrophoretic force to act on the particles in the flow channel; and a controller configured to detect characteristics of the particles flowing through the flow channel, generate a voltage signal by a pulse modulation using a square pulse based on the detected characteristics of the particles, and output the voltage signal to the operation electrode portion.

Sorting apparatus and sorting method

Provided is a flow channel device including: a flow channel through which a fluid including particles flow; a plurality of branch channels branching from the flow channel; a measurement portion that is provided at a predetermined position in the flow channel and configured to measure electrical characteristics when the particles pass the predetermined position; an operation portion that is provided on a downstream side of the measurement portion and on an upstream side of the plurality of branch channels and configured to apply a dielectrophoretic force to the particles by forming an electric field; and an electrical first guard portion provided between the measurement portion and the operation portion.

Flow channel device and sorting apparatus

A blood coagulation analysis device and method in which information relating to the coagulability of blood is evaluated based on a change generated in a permittivity measured in a coagulation process of the blood due to addition of a substance that activates or inactivates platelets to the blood.

Blood coagulation system analyzing method and blood coagulation system analyzing device

Disclosed herein is a dielectric cytometric apparatus capable of analyzing cells and sorting the cells without adopting an optical analysis method and provides a dielectric cytometric cell sorting method for the apparatus. A stenosis channel allowing a single cell to flow is created on a cell injection section of a micro flow channel device used as a portion of the dielectric cytometric apparatus. A pair of measurement electrodes is created on the stenosis channel and an analyzer connected to the measurement electrodes measures the complex dielectric constant of for every cell passing through the stenosis channel. A electric-field application section provided on the downstream side of the stenosis channel applies an electric field for changing the flow of the cells inside a flow channel on the basis of information on the measured complex dielectric constants so that the cells can be sorted by making use of branch channels.

Dielectric cytometric apparatus and dielectric-cytometric cell sorting method

Disclosed herein is a cell sorter including a measuring electrode, working electrode, detection electrode, and output section. The measuring electrode forms a measuring electric field in a flow path to measure a complex dielectric constant of each cells flowing through the flow path. The working electrode forms, in the flow path, a working electric field to sort the cells by imparting a dielectrophoretic force to the cells and using the flow path. The detection electrode detects the presence of the cell in the fluid flowing through the flow path. The output section acquires a sorting signal based on information about the measured complex dielectric constant and a detection signal indicating the detection of the cell by the detection electrode. The output section outputs a working signal adapted to form the working electric field to the working electrode when the detection signal is acquired if the sorting signal is acquired.

Cell sorter and cell sorting method

A blood coagulation system analyzing method includes acquiring information relating to the coagulability of blood based on a change generated in a complex permittivity spectrum measured in a coagulation process of the blood due to addition of a substance that activates or inactivates platelets to the blood.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazumasa Sato