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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shigeru Hosoi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hayakawa, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Shizuoka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422 8208 ; 422 8205 ; 2504581 ; 2504612 ; 356317 ; 356318 ;
Abstract
To assure detection of fluorescence produced from continuously supplied fine particles such as DNA bases with accuracy and excellent efficiency, fine particles supplied from a flow cell are introduced into a through-hole of a hollow photomultiplier. An optical fiber is disposed in axial alignment with the through-hole of the photomultiplier and irradiates an exciting light beam onto the fine particles staying in the through-hole. Light-induced fluorescence is thus detected by the photomultiplier which has a photocathode on an inner circumference of the through-hole.