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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
May. 29, 2014
Gnubio, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
David H. Tracy, Champaign, IL (US);
Aaron Weber, Arlington, MA (US);
Peter Stokes, Cambridge, MA (US);
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for determining a velocity or an inflation rate of a droplet in a microfluidic channel. The droplet is exposed to two or more temporally separated flashes of light, each flash including light of one wavelength band, and imaged using a detector configured to distinguish light in the wavelength bands. Two or more images of the droplet are acquired, each corresponding to one of the flashes, and all within a single video frame or photographic exposure. The images can be processed separately and the position or size of the droplet in each image is calculated. A velocity or inflation rate is then determined by dividing the change in position or size by the amount of time allowed to pass between the flashes.