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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerd Schweiger, Graz, AT;
Assignee:
AVL Medical Instruments AG, Schaffhausen, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
436164 ; 436167 ; 436171 ; 436177 ;
Abstract
For the purpose of determining the concentration c of an absorbing medium distributed homogeneously in a carrier, even if the film thickness d of the carrier is unknown, an absorbing medium is used whose measured absorption a(.lambda.) deviates from Lambert-Beer's law, in particular in the region of higher concentration, and n.gtoreq.2 model components of the absorbing medium are assumed, so that