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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1991
Tokihiro Kosaka, Hyogo, JP;
Shinichi Ogino, Hyogo, JP;
TOA Medical Electronics Co., Ltd., Kobe, JP;
Abstract
An imaging flow cytometer is provided with a continuous-emission light source for continuously monitoring cells passing through the image capturing area of a video camera for cell-image capturing, and with an excitation light source for picking up a fluorescent image of a cell. When a line sensor monitoring cell passage through the cytometer senses such cell passage, the cell is irradiated with strobe light and then, after waiting for the cell to move a fixed distance, with the excitation light. Thus, a particle analyzer is provided in which an image by white light resulting from the strobe light and a fluorescent image resulting from the excitation light can be captured simultaneously by a single video camera in either upper and lower halves or right and left halves of one imaged frame.