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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2008
John Maier, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jeffrey Cohen, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
John Maier, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jeffrey Cohen, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
ChemImage Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A spectroscopic method and system to identify a biofilm of a microorganism. A sample containing a sample microorganism is irradiated with substantially monochromatic radiation. A Raman data set is obtained based on radiation scattered from the irradiated sample. A database is searched in accordance with the Raman data set in order to identify a known Raman data set from the database. The database contains a plurality of known Raman data sets where each known Raman data set is associated with a known sessile form of a corresponding known microorganism. A sessile form of the sample microorganism is identified based on the known Raman data set identified by the searching.