Patent ID: 11965812
Assignee: KINETIC RIVER CORP.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus for analyzing an optical signal decay, comprising:
a source for generating a beam of pulsed optical energy configured to expose a sample to the beam, wherein the sample comprises one or more fluorophores from which at least one optical signal decay component is derived;
a detector comprising a number of spectral detection channels configured to detect optical signals resulting from interactions between the beam and the sample and convert the optical signals into respective electrical signals; and
at least one processor and memory storing instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving the respective electrical signals from the detector, wherein the respective electrical signals represent a time-domain sequence of pulse signals;
segmenting and coherently adding the time-domain sequence of pulse signals, wherein a length of each pulse signal segment corresponds to an excitation pulse period;
forming a supercurve comprising a digital sampling of the segmented and coherently added time-domain sequence of pulse signals, wherein the supercurve comprises the at least one optical signal decay component; and
calculating an intensity contribution of the at least one optical signal decay component of the supercurve based on comparison to a lookup table.