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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2022
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Stephen Boppart, Champaign, IL (US);
Janet Sorrells, Champaign, IL (US);
Rishyashring Raman Iyer, Champaign, IL (US);
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Abstract
A photon peak event detection system accepts an analog output from a photon sensor, directly digitizes the analogy output and includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) programmed to conduct a photon peak event detection in real-time via a photon count program that analyzes the digitized photon sensor output in sampling periods each having at least three consecutive data points to determine a local maximum among the consecutive data points and compare the local maximum to one or more predetermined thresholds to determine whether or not a photon was received in each sampling period, the algorithm providing photon counts to a phasor analysis program in the GPU. The phasor analysis program calculates pixelwise fluorescence lifetime phasor data in real-time and sends the data to a central processing unit.