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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2003
James S. Harris, Jr., Stanford, CA (US);
Stephen J. Smith, Los Altos, CA (US);
Evan P. Thrush, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ofer Levi, Los Altos, CA (US);
James S. Harris, Jr., Stanford, CA (US);
Stephen J. Smith, Los Altos, CA (US);
Evan P. Thrush, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ofer Levi, Los Altos, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A variety of types of molecules are detected and/or analyzed using an integrated micro-circuit arrangement. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a micro-circuit arrangement detects excitable target markers in response to an excitation source. The excitation source emits a first electromagnetic radiation to excite one or more target markers into emitting a second electromagnetic radiation. The excitation source and detector combination can be optimized to detect a specific characteristic of a biological specimen. In this manner, an excitation source can be combined with several optical-detectors or detection channels, where each optical-detector is measuring or sensing the same or different characteristic of the biological specimen.