Patent ID: 8774884

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a dark-field illuminator having a body structure defining at least one aperture, a plurality of interrogators each comprising a waveguide assembly including one or more electromagnetic energy waveguides configured to be coupled to at least one electromagnetic energy emitter, the plurality of interrogators oriented to focus electromagnetic energy onto at least one focal region within the least one aperture at one or more angles of incidence relative to an optical axis of an optical assembly, and a plurality of sensors configured to capture scattered electromagnetic energy from a sample interrogated by the dark-field illuminator; one or more data structures having reference hemozoin response information stored thereon; and circuitry configured to compare information associated with the capture scattered electromagnetic energy to the reference hemozoin response information stored in the one or more data structures, and determine one or more of a presence, an absence, and a severity of malaria condition based on the comparison.