Patent ID: 6775567
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G01N,G02B

Abstract:
An imaging box for capturing an image of a sample, the imaging box comprising:a body including an interior cavity for receiving the sample, and having a front wall defining an opening into said cavity; a door having a rear wall, said door movable between an opened condition, enabling access to the interior cavity through the cavity opening, and a closed condition, positioning said rear wall substantially adjacent the body front wall to prevent access through the cavity opening, the door rear wall adapted to cooperate with the body front wall, in the closed condition, to define a capture space extending substantially perimetrically about said cavity opening; and a compressible material disposed at least partially within the capture space and extending substantially perimetrically about said cavity opening, said compressible material having a transverse cross-sectional dimension defined at least partially by a first side extending perimetrically therearound and at least partially by an independent second side extending perimetrically therearound, when the door is in said closed position, said door rear wall is adapted to compress the compressible material substantially along the entire first side thereof, and the body front wall is adapted to compress the compressible material substantially along the entire second side thereof such that light entering said capture space from the exterior of the body is intercepted by compressible material.