Patent ID: 7256892
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. 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 X assuming that a fluorescent intensity of the k-th fluorescent coloring matter is represented by Y wherein the calculation section corrects the output values X