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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2000
John Gordon Rushbrooke, Cambridge, GB;
Claire Elizabeth Hooper, Cambridge, GB;
William Wray Neale, Cambridge, GB;
Packard Instrument Company, Inc., Meriden, CT (US);
Abstract
An imaging system for fluorescence assays includes a fiber optic coupling plate ( ) for transmitting radiation emitted by a sample ( ) towards a camera. This is combined with an interference filter ( ) so as to enable highly sensitive transmission of radiation to the camera, according to wavelength. The interference filter may be combined with a fiber optic coupling plate in which sample sites or wells of an array are viewed by separate fiber optic bundles, each bundle transmitting emitted light from a one sample or well to a discrete region of the field of view of the camera.