Patent ID: 9206386
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: C12M,G01N

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a flow path containing a fluid; at least one integrated computational element configured to optically interact with the fluid and at least one microorganism therein, thereby generating optically interacted light; and at least one detector arranged to receive the optically interacted light and generate an output signal corresponding to a characteristic of the fluid, the characteristic of the fluid comprising a property relating to the at least one microorganism, wherein the integrated computational element comprises a plurality of alternating layers of two materials having different indices of refraction, one of the two materials is selected from the group consisting of silicon, silica, quartz, niobium, niobia, germanium, germania, magnesium fluoride (MgF), and silicon oxide (SiO), and wherein a portion of the optically interacted light is transmitted through the at least one integrated computational element.