SYSTEMS AND USER INTERFACE FOR COLLECTING A DATA SET IN A FLOW CYTOMETER

摘要

Systems in a flow cytometer having an interrogation zone and illumination impinging the interrogation zone include: a lens subsystem including a collimating element that collimates light from the interrogation zone, a light dispersion element that disperses collimated light into a light spectrum, and a focusing lens that focuses the light spectrum onto an array of adjacent detection points; a detector array, including semiconductor detector devices, that collectively detects a full spectral range of input light signals, in which each detector device detects a subset spectral range of the full spectral range of light signals; and a user interface that enables a user to create a set of virtual detector channels by grouping detectors in the detector array, such that each virtual detector channel corresponds to a detector group and has a virtual detector channel range including the sum of subset spectral ranges of the detectors in the corresponding detector group.

主权项

1. An optical and detection system for a flow cytometer having a flow channel with an interrogation zone and an illumination source that impinges the interrogation zone from a particular direction, the optical system comprising:
a lens subsystem including:
a collimating element that receives and collimates light from the interrogation zone;a light dispersion element that disperses the collimated light into a continuous wavelength spectrum of light; anda focusing lens that focuses the spectrum of light onto an array of adjacent detection points; and a plurality of contiguous detectors that detect light at the adjacent detection points.