Patent ID: 7280207
Filing Date: 2007-10-09
Classification: B82Y,G01N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for detecting analytes in a sample containing at least one analyte, the apparatus comprising: a flow cytometry system including a channel having one or more detection zones; one or more irradiation sources disposed for irradiating the one or more detection zones with non-coherent radiation; at least one detector disposed for collecting at least one charge corresponding to an emission beam emitted from the one or more detection zones, the at least one detector having at least one output; modulating optics disposed between the irradiation source and the at least one detector; and a time delay integration system coupled to the at least one detector for effecting time delay integration of the at least one charge by accumulating the at least one charge before reading the at least one charge at the output of the at least one detector, wherein the time delay integration system accumulates the at least one charge by moving, relative to one another, the modulating optics and the channel.