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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2020
Sartorius Bioanalytical Instruments, Inc., Bohemia, NY (US);
Bradley Neagle, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alan Riggs, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Michael Kusner, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kyle Schutte, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Eric Endsley, Saline, MI (US);
Sartorius BioAnalytical Instruments, Inc., Bohemia, NY (US);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus is provided to facilitate epifluorescent imaging of three (or more) color channels and to perform phase contrast and/or bright field imaging of samples without manual adjustment of the imaging apparatus. This allows for automated imaging, over extended periods of time, of a plurality of samples by a device located inside an incubator without disturbing the incubator environment to manually adjust the apparatus. Also provided are embodiments to facilitate user swapping of removable optical modules and/or transillumination modules to allow the imaging apparatus to be adapted to different combinations of assays and/or fluorescent indicators so as to increase the variety of experiments and/or fluorescent dyes that can be imaged using the imaging apparatus.