Spectrofluorometer

• US 3,313,290 A
• Filed: 08/14/1963
• Issued: 04/11/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Chance Britton, Victor A. Legallais
• Original Assignee: Chance Britton, Victor A. Legallais
• Inventors: Britton, Chance, Legallais, Victor A.
• Application Number:
  US04/302,093
• Time in Patent Office: 1,336 Days
• US Class Current: 600/317
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/40 Animals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14556 by fluorescence A61B5/14555 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2021/6417 Spectrofluorimetric devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/6458 Fluorescence microscopy fluorescence microscopes per se G02B21/0076 and G02B21/16
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/6486 Measuring fluorescence of biological material, e.g. DNA, RNA, cells G01N21/6428 takes precedence

Claims

1. AN APPARATUS FOR NONDESTRUCTIVELY MEASURING THE INTRACELLULAR OXIDATION-REDUCTION STATE IN EXPOSED SURFACE TISSUE OF INTACT INTERNAL ORGANIS OF A LIVING ANIMAL COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, MEANS TO IRRADIATE SAID TISSUE WITH RADIANT ENERGY OF A PREDETERMINED WAVELENGTH, AND MEANS TO MEASRUE INTRACELLULAR OXIDATION-REDUCTION LEVELS AS EVIDENCED BY CHANGES IN THE FLUORESCENCE EMISSION SPECTRA OF MITOCHONDRIAL PYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE NEAR THE EXPOSED IRRADIATED SURFACE.