US 7,256,892 B2Granted

Measuring instrument and fluorometric method

AssigneeARKRAY, Inc.

InventorShinya Nakajima

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Abstract

A measuring instrument that comprises a light source unit 1 capable of emitting light having different wavelengths, a light receiving unit 2 that outputs an electrical signal corresponding to an intensity of transmitted light or radiated light from a sample 6 mixed with a plurality of coloring matters, and a calculation section 3, is used. The calculation section 3 uses a previously calculated correction coefficient to calculate the fluorescence intensity of transmitted light or radiated light for each coloring matter. The correction coefficient is calculated based on an electrical signal output by the light receiving unit 2 when a plurality of correction samples are irradiated with light having different wavelengths, each correction sample being mixed with any one of the coloring matters and the respective mixed coloring matters being different from one another.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A measuring instrument for measuring fluorescence intensity of fluorescence of each of a plurality of fluorescent coloring matters when a sample mixed with the plurality of fluorescent coloring matters having different excitation wavelengths and having numbers 1 to n given thereto is irradiated with light having different wavelengths, comprising:

a light source unit capable of irradiating the sample with the light having the different wavelengths;
a light receiving unit that receives fluorescence of the fluorescent coloring matters and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to a fluorescence intensity of the received fluorescence;
a calculation section and a light amount monitor that detects a light amount of light emitted by the light source unit and outputs a signal to the calculation section,
wherein the calculation section calculates the fluorescence intensity of the fluorescence of each of the fluorescent coloring matters emitted from the sample using a correction coefficient that is calculated based upon an output value Xk of the electrical signal output by the light receiving unit when the light source unit irradiates each of a plurality of correction samples, each correction sample being mixed with one of the plurality of fluorescent coloring matters and the respective mixed fluorescent coloring matters being different from one another, with light having an excitation wavelength of a k-th fluorescent coloring matter (k=1, 2, . . . , n),
assuming that a fluorescent intensity of the k-th fluorescent coloring matter is represented by Yk in the sample mixed with the plurality of fluorescent coloring matters, the correction coefficient is a matrix (aij (i=1, 2, . . . , n;
j=1, 2, . . . , n)) satisfying Expression (23):
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wherein the calculation section corrects the output values X1 to Xn or the matrix elements a11 to ann based on the signal output by the light amount monitor.

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A computer program product comprising a program recorded in a recording medium, the program causing a computer to measure a fluorescence intensity of fluorescence of each of a plurality of fluorescent coloring matters, the fluorescence being emitted from a sample mixed with the plurality of fluorescent coloring matters having different excitation wavelengths and having numbers 1 to n given thereto, using a light source unit capable of emitting light having different wavelengths and a light receiving unit that receives the fluorescence of the fluorescent coloring matters and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the fluorescence intensity of the received fluorescence, the program comprising,

the step of calculating the fluorescence intensity of the fluorescence of each fluorescent coloring matter emitted from the sample using a correction coefficient,
wherein the correction coefficient is calculated based on an output value Xk of the electrical signal output by the light receiving unit when the light source unit irradiates each of a plurality of correction samples, each correction sample being mixed with one of the plurality of fluorescent coloring matters and the respective mixed fluorescent coloring matters being different from one another, with light having an excitation wavelength of a k-th fluorescent coloring matter (k=1, 2, . . . , n) and assuming that a fluorescence intensity of the k-th fluorescent coloring matter is represented by Yk in the sample mixed with the plurality of fluorescent coloring matters, the correction coefficient is a matrix (aij (i=1, 2, . . . , n;
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wherein in the calculating step, the output values X1 to Xn or the matrix elements a11 to ann are corrected based on a light amount of light emitted by the light source unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/534,182Filed 13 Nov 2003
Priority: JP 2002-33078714 Nov 2002
Published: US 2006/0108540 A125 May 2006
Granted: 14 Aug 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G01N 21/6428
Fluorescence; Phosphorescence: measuring fluorescence of fluorescent products of reactions or of fluorochrome labelled reactive substances, e.g.…
G01N 21/645
Fluorescence; Phosphorescence: specially adapted constructive features of fluorimeters
G01N 2021/6441
With indicators, stains, dyes, tags, labels, marks: with two or more labels
G01N 2021/6463
Specially adapted constructive features of fluorimeters: optics