Portable imaging device
AssigneeAlentic Microscience Inc.
InventorsAlan Marc Fine, Joel Ironstone, Christopher Gillespie
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Abstract
A base assembly includes an imaging sensor having a sensor surface to receive a sample, and a platform connected to the base assembly. The base assembly includes (a) an aperture configured to receive a lid surface of a lid in a position to define an imaging space between the sensor surface and the lid surface and (b) a movement portion movable toward and away from the base assembly. The platform and the base assembly are configured to limit contact between the sample and the base assembly other than at the sensor surface.
Claims51
A disposable sample cassette comprising:
- a frame defining an aperture, and
- a transparent film covering the aperture, the transparent film having a thickness of less than 3 microns, wherein the frame and the transparent film are configured to support a sample on the transparent film for imaging using an optical sensor array.
A method comprising:
- depositing a microscopy sample onto a thin film, the thin film covering an aperture defined in a sample cassette,
- placing the sample cassette in contact with or in close proximity to a sensor surface of an imaging sensor, the thin film being between the sample and the sensor surface and at least a portion of the sample being within a distance from the sensor surface that is less than ten times a wavelength of light to which the imaging sensor is sensitive, and
- imaging the sample using the imaging sensor.
A disposable sample cassette comprising:
- a frame defining an aperture, and
- a transparent film covering the aperture, the transparent film having a thickness of less than 3 microns, wherein the aperture has a size and a shape matching a surface of an imaging sensor.
A disposable sample cassette comprising:
- a frame defining an aperture, and
- a transparent film covering the aperture, the transparent film having a thickness of less than 3 microns, wherein the frame and the transparent film are configured to support a sample on the transparent film such that the sample is within a distance from a sensor surface of an imaging sensor that is less than ten times a wavelength of light to which the imaging sensor is sensitive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.