Optical analysis device, optical analysis method and computer program for optical analysis using single light-emitting particle detection

Abstract

In the scanning molecule counting method detecting light of a light-emitting particle in a sample solution using a confocal or multiphoton microscope, there is provided an optical analysis technique enabling the scanning in a sample solution with moving a light detection region in a broader area or along a longer route while making the possibility of detecting the same light-emitting particle as different particles as low as possible and remaining the size or shape of the light detection region unchanged as far as possible. In the inventive optical analysis technique, there are performed detecting light from the light detection region and generating time series light intensity data during moving the light detection region along the second route whose position is moved along the first route, and thereby, the signal indicating light from each light-emitting particle in a predetermined route is individually detected using the time series light intensity data.