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AssigneeUniversities Space Research Association
InventorsMark S. F. Clarke, Daniel L. Feeback
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Centrifugal analyzer and method for staining biological or non-biological samples in microgravity, wherein the method utilizes an increase in weight of a fluid sample as a function of g-load, to overcome cohesive and frictional forces from preventing its movement in a preselected direction. Apparatus is characterized by plural specimen reservoirs and channels in a slide, each channel being of differing cross-section, wherein respective samples are selectively dispensed, from the reservoirs in response to an imposed g-factor, precedent to sample staining. Within the method, one thus employs microscope slides which define channels, each being of a differing cross-section dimension relative to others. In combination therewith, centrifugal slide mounting apparatus controllably imposes g-vectors of differing magnitudes within a defined structure of the centrifuge such as a chip array.
A method of controlling displacement of a fluid from a first reservoir of a plurality of fluid filled reservoirs within a micro-array to a second reservoir within the micro-array, wherein each of said plurality of fluid filled reservoirs is connected to the second reservoir by one of a plurality of interconnecting channels, the method comprising:
A three-dimensional micro-array, for use in real-time centrifugal analysis of samples within a centrifuge capable of altering in at least two spatial dimensions an orientation of the micro-array relative to a centrifugal g-force applied to the micro-array by the centrifuge, the micro-array apparatus therefor comprising:
A system for performing real-time centrifugal analysis of fluid samples, the system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.