PORTABLE OPTICAL DEVICE FOR MULTI-CHAMBER FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENT AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CHAMBER FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENT USING THE SAME

摘要

An optical device for multi-chamber fluorescence measurement in a point-of-care-testing (POCT) application is provided, which is compact-sized, portable and thus available for POCT use, driven with low power consumption, and fabricated with minimized manufacture cost. The optical device includes a sample processing unit to perform a series of biochemical reaction using an injected sample, a light source to emit a uniform light beam, an excitation light transmitting unit to transfer the light beam emitted from the light source to the sample processing unit, an emission light reducing unit to receive a fluorescence signal emitted from a fluorescence mark of the sample processing unit and output a fluorescence signal in an asymmetrically-reduced form, and a fluorescence detecting unit to detect a fluorescence signal output from the emission light reducing unit.