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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2022
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Sergio Fantini, Winchester, MA (US);
Giles Blaney, Somerville, MA (US);
Angelo Sassaroli, Arlington, MA (US);
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Abstract
A self-calibrating hybrid spectrophotometer comprises a receptacle for receiving the cuvette, first and second optodes that are configured to permit light to enter the cuvette, third and fourth optodes that are configured to permit light to leave the cuvette, and a controller that is configured to control delivery of light to one of the first and second optodes. Light entering one of the first and second optodes is received at the third and fourth optodes after having interacted with the turbid sample along different paths having different lengths. Measurements made at the third and fourth optodes in response to having illuminated both the first and second source optodes provide two slopes of optical transmittance as a function of path length. The spectrophotometer uses these slopes to identify a slope that is indicative of the absorption coefficient and the reduced scattering coefficient of the sample.