Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC `Dodge, Jr. Ryan E.
摘要:
An immersion cytometry system (200, 250) having a primary focusing optic immersed in a fluid stream (209) containing suspended particles (212). The system includes a light source (202) configured to illuminate a sensing region in the fluid stream that includes a focus of the primary optic. Light scattered and/or fluoresced from suspended particles passing through the sensing region is focused by an external tube lens on an external detector. The primary optic in one embodiment is a ball lens. In some embodiments, one or more filter/beam splitters on the optical axis reflect a portion of the signal light towards corresponding detectors, each filter being configured to reflect a preselected waveband of light.