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AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsMitsushiro Yamaguchi, Seiji Kondo, Tetsuya Tanabe, Kunio Hori
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The inventive optical analysis technique uses an optical system capable of detecting light from a micro region in a solution, such as an optical system of a confocal microscope or a multiphoton microscope, to detect the light from the light-emitting particle to be observed while moving the position of the micro region in the sample solution (while scanning the inside of the sample solution with the micro region); generates time series light intensity data, computes a characteristic value of the light intensity indicating the presence or absence of the light from a single light-emitting particle in every time section of a predetermined width in the light intensity data; and detects the light-emitting particle crossing the inside of the micro region individually using the characteristic value, thereby enabling the counting of the light-emitting particle(s) or the acquisition of the information on the concentration or number density of the light-emitting particle.
An optical analysis device which detects light from a light-emitting particle dispersed and moving at random in a sample solution by using an optical system of a confocal microscope or a multiphoton microscope, wherein the device comprises:
An optical analysis method of detecting light from a light-emitting particle dispersed and moving at random in a sample solution by using an optical system of a confocal microscope or a multiphoton microscope, said method comprising steps of:
A computer readable storage device having a computer program product including programmed instructions for optical analysis for detecting light from a light-emitting particle dispersed and moving at random in a sample solution by using an optical system of a confocal microscope or a multiphoton microscope, said programmed instructions causing a computer to perform steps of:
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