APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LUMINESCENCE DOSE AND METHOD OF MEASURING LUMINESCENCE

Title:

APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LUMINESCENCE DOSE AND METHOD OF MEASURING LUMINESCENCE

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2007/074923

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

It is intended to provide a novel apparatus for measuring luminescence whereby the doses or intensities of luminescence from a plural number of biological samples (for example, vital tissues, cells or organisms), into which a gene expressing a photoprotein has been transferred, can be individually measured. Namely, an apparatus for measuring luminescence comprises an image obtaining part for obtaining a luminescence image of a plural number of biological samples, a measurement area specifying part for specifying at least one measurement area in the luminescence image, and a luminescence measuring part for measuring the dose or intensity of the luminescence in the measurement area specified above depending on the luminescence image. Thus, the luminescence dose or intensity is measured for each biological sample in the measurement area. Thus, it becomes possible to focus only on a biological sample, in which the gene has been successfully expressed, and measure the luminescence thereof regardless of the variation in the photoprotein gene transfer efficiency in cells and so on.

Inventors:

SUZUKI HIROBUMI (JP)
OHASHI YOKO (JP)
SATO CHIAKI (JP)
FUKUOKA MORINAO (JP)
NAMBA AKIHIRO (JP)

Application Number:

PCT/JP2006/326332

Publication Date:

July 05, 2007

Filing Date:

December 26, 2006

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Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORP (JP)
SUZUKI HIROBUMI (JP)
OHASHI YOKO (JP)
SATO CHIAKI (JP)
FUKUOKA MORINAO (JP)
NAMBA AKIHIRO (JP)

International Classes:

G02B21/00; C12M1/34; C12Q1/02; G01N21/76; G01N33/68

Foreign References:

JP2005027623A	2005-02-03
JP3683591B2	2005-08-17

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