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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2013
Xrpro Sciences, Inc., Los Alamos, NM (US);
Benjamin P. Warner, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Rebecca L. E. Miller, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Lori J. Peterson, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Jennifer A. Berger, White Rock, NM (US);
Eva R. Birnbaum, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Caldera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Los Alamos, NM (US);
Abstract
The present invention comprises a method for measuring the transport of analytes through a cell. The method comprises the steps of providing one or more cells containing at least 10 picograms of an analyte within a volume defined by the area of an x-ray excitation beam and a depth of live times the 1/e attenuation, depth for at least one characteristic x-ray signal of the analyte as attenuated by water. The method further comprises the step of removing at least a of portion of the analyte from the cells. The method also comprises the steps of exciting at least a portion of the analyte that has been removed from the cells with an x-ray beam; and using an x-ray detector to measure x-ray fluorescence.