Patent ID: 7355698

Claim:
A rotating imaging device, comprising: a platform oriented in a plane and configured to secure one or more multi-sample container units; a motor configured to rotate the platform in the plane; one or more light sources on a first side of the platform configured to transmit light from the first side of the platform toward a second side of the platform; one or more light sources on the second side of the platform configured to transmit light from the second side of the platform toward the first side of the platform; and a detector configured to move from a first position over the second side of the platform to a second position over the second side of the platform and further configured to collect at least some of the transmitted light from the light sources on the first side of the platform and at least some of the transmitted light from light sources on the second side of the platform, while the platform is rotated, to form an image of at least a portion of one or more samples disposed in the one or more multi-sample container units.