Method and system for determining magnetic bead concentration in suspension
AssigneeSeegene, Inc.
InventorsHyun Jin LIM, Deog Pill CHO, Yoo Jun HAN, Won Seok JEONG, Huy Youel CHOI
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Abstract
Provided is a method and system for determining a magnetic bead concentration in a suspension according to the disclosure, including irradiating a plurality of different wavelengths of light to a suspension in which magnetic beads are suspended, measuring the intensities of a plurality of reflected light beams at the different wavelengths reflected from magnetic beads, and determining the concentration of the magnetic beads from the measured intensities of the reflected light beams at the different wavelengths.
Claims18
A method for determining a magnetic bead concentration in a suspension, the method comprising:
- irradiating a plurality of light beams having different wavelengths to a plurality of wells containing a suspension in which magnetic beads are suspended;
- sensing reflected light beams at the different wavelengths from the plurality of wells using a detector including a light sensor;
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- determining concentrations of the magnetic beads in the plurality of wells by analyzing light data of the sensed per-wavelength reflected light beams.
The method of claim 3, wherein the plurality of light beams are two or [claim 4] more light beams selected from among ultraviolet (UV) light, blue light, green light, orange light, red light, far-red light, infrared light, and white light, and wherein the plurality of light beams are sequentially irradiated.
A system for determining a concentration in a suspension, the system comprising:
- an illuminator irradiating a plurality of light beams having different wavelengths to the suspension;
- a detector sensing reflected light beams at the different wavelengths from the suspension to which the plurality of light beams are irradiated by the illuminator;
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- a controller controlling the illuminator to irradiate the light beams having the different wavelengths according to on-off combinations, driving the detector, measuring intensities of the reflected light beams at the different wavelengths by analyzing light data of the reflected light beams at the different wavelengths sensed by the detector, and determining a concentration of the suspension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.