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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2004
Mark E. Fauver, Seattle, WA (US);
J. Richard Rahn, Sammamish, WA (US);
Eric J. Seibel, Seattle, WA (US);
Alan C. Nelson, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
Mark E. Fauver, Seattle, WA (US);
J. Richard Rahn, Sammamish, WA (US);
Eric J. Seibel, Seattle, WA (US);
Alan C. Nelson, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
University of Washington, Seattle, WA (US);
VisionGate, Inc., Gig Harbor, WA (US);
Abstract
A scanning method for scanning samples of biological cells using optical tomography includes preparing, acquiring, reconstructing and viewing three-dimensional images of cell samples. Concentration and enrichment of the cell sample follows. The cell sample is stained. Cells are isolated from the cell sample and purified. A cell/solvent mixture is injected into a gel by centrifugation. A cell/gel mixture is injected into a capillary tube until a cell appears centered in a field of view using a stopped-flow method. An optical imaging system, such as a fixed or variable motion optical tomography system acquires a projection image. The sample is rotated about a tube axis to generate additional projections. Once image acquisition is completed, the acquired image projections are corrected for errors. A computer or other equivalent processor is used to compute filtered backprojection information for 3D reconstruction.