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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2000
Paul Hartmann, Weiz, AT;
Werner Ziegler, Graz, AT;
F. Hoffman-La Roche AG, Basel, CH;
Abstract
A system for quantitative determination of the local distribution of a quantity to be measured, comprising a planar sensor film, which is applied to a measuring surface, such as the surface of a body organ, a skin area or a cell culture, and whose diffusion properties regarding a parameter to be determined are known. The sensor film contains a luminescent indicator responding to the parameter to be determined with a change of at least one optical property. The system further comprises an excitation and detection unit including means for supplying excitation radiation of at least one wavelength, an imaging detection means, preferably a CCD camera, and an evaluation unit processing the image information obtained from the excitation and detection unit. Further provided is an applicator tube to be placed on the measuring surface, whose rim facing the measuring surface is in elastic contact with the sensor film and is impervious to external radiation interfering with the detection means. At the other end facing away from the measuring surface, which may be covered with a cap, a coupling means is provided for attachment of the excitation and detection unit.