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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wei Dong Tian, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Pierre Trepagnier, Medford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Argose, Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ; A61B 6/00 ; G01N 2/164 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ; A61B 6/00 ; G01N 2/164 ;
Abstract
An instrument for evaluating fluorescence of a heterogeneous tissue includes means for exciting a two-dimensional portion of the tissue surface with excitation radiation at a plurality of excitation wavelengths, means for collecting emission radiation from the two-dimensional portion of the tissue surface simultaneously with excitation of the portion, and means for forming a two-dimensional excitation-emission map of the excitation radiation and the simultaneously collected emission radiation and spatially averaging the excitation and emission radiation.
Published as:
CA2400305A1; WO0160247A1; AU3706601A; US2001046045A1; EP1257192A1; US6597932B2; JP2003522578A; US2003195401A1;