Patent ID: 8357916
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. A fluorimeter cell for use in a standard fluorimeter cell holder, the fluorimeter cell for measuring fluorescence of a sample, which cell comprises an incident wall surface, a sample chamber, an exit wall, an emitting wall member and a lens, the incident wall and the exiting wall defining two walls of the sample chamber in which a sample is disposed during fluorimetry, wherein, in use, incident light traveling along an incident light pathway enters through the incident wall surface and passes through the sample chamber to energise a sample disposed therein and exits through the exit wall, wherein said wall member and lens are outside the incident light pathway, and the wall member is adapted to collimate light emitted by the sample though the lens, which lens is adapted to collect the light emitted by the sample from the emitting wall member and direct it, in use, towards a detector, the cell further comprising a mirrored wall surface on the exit wall, adapted to reflect incident light back towards the sample chamber thereby enabling further energisation of the sample, and wherein the fluorimeter cell has dimensions for use in a standard fluorimeter holder.