Microscopy unit
AssigneeS.D. Sight Diagnostics Ltd.
InventorsAmitai Franklin, Trevor Ruggiero, Sarah Levy, Joseph Joel Pollak, Aidan John Carroll, Sharon Pecker, Yochay Shlomo Eshel
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a microscopy unit that comprises an objective lens and a microscope camera. A cantilever includes an objective lens housing. A motor moves the cantilever along a direction of the optical axis of the objective lens. The cantilever is configured, during the movement of the cantilever, to support the objective lens within the objective lens housing such that an optical axis of the objective lens is aligned with the camera, without the objective lens being directly connected to the camera. Other applications are also described.
Claims19
An Apparatus for use with a microscopy unit that comprises an objective lens and a microscope camera, and for use with a bodily sample that contains an analyte disposed within water, the apparatus comprising:
- a cantilever comprising an objective lens housing;
- a motor configured to move the cantilever along a direction of an optical axis of the objective lens;
- a sample chamber configured to receive the bodily sample, a height of the sample chamber being unknown;
- an optical-density-measurement unit comprising:
- one or more light sources configured to:
- direct light through the sample at a first wavelength band, at which absorption of light by the analyte is relatively high, and
- direct light through the sample at a second wavelength band that is centered around a wavelength of between 1.200 nm and 3,000 nm;
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- one or more light detectors configured to detect light that passes through the sample at each of the first and second wavelength bands;
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- at least one computer processor configured, based upon the detected light at each of the first and second wavelength bands, to determine a concentration of the analyte within the bodily sample, without directly measuring the height of the sample chamber.
An apparatus for use with a microscopy unit that comprises an objective lens and a microscope camera and for use with a bodily sample that contains n analytes disposed within a medium, the apparatus comprising:
- a cantilever comprising an objective lens housing;
- a motor configured to move the cantilever along a direction of an optical axis of the objective lens;
- a sample chamber configured to receive the bodily sample, a height of the sample chamber being unknown;
- an optical-density-measurement unit comprising:
- one or more light sources configured to:
- direct light through the sample at n wavelength bands, each of the n wavelength bands corresponding to a wavelength band at which absorption of light, by a respective one of the n analytes is relatively high, and
- direct light through the sample at a further wavelength band at which absorption of light by the medium is relatively high;
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- one or more light detectors configured to detect light that passes through the sample at each of the wavelength bands;
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- at least one computer processor configured, based upon the detected light at each of the wavelength bands, to determine a concentration of each of the n analytes within the bodily sample, without directly measuring the height of the sample chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.