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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1999
W. Patrick Ambrose, Los Alamos, NM (US);
W. Kevin Grace, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Peter M. Goodwin, Los Alamos, NM (US);
James H. Jett, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Alan Van Orden, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Richard A. Keller, White Rock, NM (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method enable imaging multiple fluorescent sample particles in a single flow channel. A flow channel defines a flow direction for samples in a flow stream and has a viewing plane perpendicular to the flow direction. A laser beam is formed as a ribbon having a width effective to cover the viewing plane. Imaging optics are arranged to view the viewing plane to form an image of the fluorescent sample particles in the flow stream, and a camera records the image formed by the imaging optics.