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Patent No.:

US 7867778 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2007

Fluid focusing for positional control of a specimen for 3-d imaging

Applicants:

Jon W. Hayenga, Kent, WA (US);

Paul R. Smargiassi, Woodinville, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jon W. Hayenga, Kent, WA (US);

Paul R. Smargiassi, Woodinville, WA (US);

Assignee:

VisionGate, Inc., Gig Harbor, WA (US);

Attorneys:

Citadel Patent Law

George A. Leone

Primary Examiner:

Jill Warden

Assistant Examiner:

Dean Kwak

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 31/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/10 (2006.01); B01L 3/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for loading a sample for imaging by an optical tomography system. A sample volume including at least one microscopic sample and a viscous fluid is coaxially loaded into a sample delivery tube. The sample volume is impelled through a focus cell into a capillary tube, where the capillary tube has a smaller crossectional area than the sample delivery tube, so that a reduced volume of the at least one microscopic sample and viscous fluid is constrained to a central region within the capillary tube.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Hayenga, Jon. (2011). Fluid focusing for positional control of a specimen for 3-d imaging (U.S. Patent No. 7867778). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7867778

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