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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2001
Kanji Yahiro, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus of optically detecting morphological change of an organism specimen such as an animal/plant cell. In a candidate compound screening for detecting a candidate compound among compounds, a camera of a microscope apparatus takes images of an organism specimen in a plate before and after a dosage of each compound-containing solution to the organism specimen by a dispensing head. An image processor processes the taken microscopic images and provides numerical data as a quantitative indicator of a state of the organism specimen. The screening apparatus judges whether each compound solved in each solution is the candidate compound by comparing numerical data before and after the dosage of the solution with each other.