Medical University of South Carolina

Raymond Gerard Belliveau, Iii

Michael L Myrick

Stephen L Morgan

Zhenyu Lu

Brianna Cassidy

Stephanie Dejong

Katherine Witherspoon

Wayne L O'Brien

Briana Marie Cassidy

A stain-barrier is described along with methods of its application to a fabric. The stain barrier reduces variability between samples of different dilution or fabric type so that limits of stain detection can be assigned more accurately and precisely and stain detection techniques can be transparently compared.

Reproducible sample preparation method for quantitative stain detection

Methods for identifying chemical contrasts on a common surface are generally provided. The presence of a stain on a surface can be detected by applying a testing vapor, such as water, onto the surface and monitoring the surface with an infrared camera that detects wavelengths of about 700 nm to about 1 mm and/or a microbolometer that detects wavelengths of about 7.5 &#x3bc;m to about 14 &#x3bc;m. The surface may be at room temperature or preheated during the detection method.

Methods of detecting latent stains on a surface

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Columbia, SC, United States of America

Raymond Gerard Belliveau, Iii