CAPILLARY ARRAY CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE SCANNER AND METHOD

摘要

A laser-excited capillary array scanner including a plurality of capillaries (21) having a parallel, side-by-side, coplanar relationship and a laser-excited confocal fluorescence detector (18) for detecting fluorescence from a selected interior volumes of each of said capillaries (21) sequentially and repetitively during electrophoresis or other separation method. The invention also relates to a method of analyzing a plurality of capillaries (21), with a single scanner (30), by scanning a plurality of capillary passages in side-by-side relationship, and periodically and repetitively detecting florescence from each capillary passage during electrophoresis or any other separation procedure.