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AssigneeCambridge Imaging Limited
InventorsRichard E. Ansorge, Clare E. Hooper, William W. Neale, Philip Stanley
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Apparatus as described by which very low light levels emitted typically by very small regions such as individual cells in cultured monolayers, can be more readily detected by a detector such as a CCD detector or image intensifier. The light capturing aid is a fibre optic face plate located between the light emitting material and the detector, but not in contact with the light emitting material. Where the latter is contained on a surface such as a petri dish, the face plate is positioned between the dish and the detector with at least an air gap between the face plate and the detector.
A light transmission system in which photon emission from material on a first surface is to be transferred to an optical detector, comprising a fibre optic face plate located between the first surface and the detector with a gap between the face plate and the detector, wherein the detector includes a fibre optic plate entry window which in combination with said fibre optic face plate forms a focused image of discrete photon emitting sites on the first surface of said detector.
A method of detecting light emissions of a particular wavelength and/or polarisation from discrete regions on a support surface by means of a broad spectrum response detector coupled thereto by a face plate positioned between the support surface and the viewing window of a detector viewing window comprising a fibre optic face plate, comprising the steps of:
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