Abstract:
A method of classification of pixels into groups of pixels according to their association with a single fluorophore or a combination of fluorophores selected from a plurality of fluorophores, each of the fluorophores having characterizing excitation and emission spectra and specifying excitation and emission peaks, the method comprising the steps of (a) providing a plurality of pairs of wide-band excitation filters (114) and wide-band emission filters (116); (b) exciting fluorophores of each of the pixels with light filtered through one of the wide-band excitation filters, and recording emitted light intensity (122) as retrieved after passing through its paired emission filter; (c) repeating step (b) for all of the plurality of pairs of filters, such that each of the pixels is representable by a vector of a plurality of dimensions, the number of dimensions being equal to the number of the plurality of pairs of filters; (d) using an algorithm for evaluating the presence of each of the plurality of fluorophores in each of the pixels, thereby classifying each of the pixels into a group of pixels according to its association with a single fluorophore or combination of fluorophores.
Abstract:
A method of in situ analysis of a biological sample comprising the steps of (a) staining the biological sample with N stains of which a first stain is selected from the group consisting of a first immunohistochemical stain, a first histological stain and a first DNA ploidy stain, and a second stain is selected from the group consisting of a second immunohistochemical stain, a second histological stain and a second DNA ploidy stain, with provisions that N is an integer greater than three and further that (i) if the first stain is the first immunohistochemical stain then the second stain is either the second histological stain or the second DNA ploidy stain; (ii) if the first stain is the first histological stain then the second stain is either the second immunohistochemical stain or the second DNA ploidy stain; whereas (iii) if the first stain is the first DNA ploidy stain then the second stain is either the second immunohistochemical stain or the second histological stain; and (b) using a spectral data collection device for collecting spectral data from the biological sample, the spectral data collection device and the N stains are selected so that a spectral component associated with each of the N stains is collectible. Figure (1) shows a block diagram illustrating the main components of an imaging spectrometer.
Abstract:
A spectral imaging method for simultaneous detection of multiple fluorophores aimed at detecting and analyzing fluorescent in situ hybridizations employing numerous chromosome paints and/or loci specific probes each labeled with a different fluorophore or a combination of fluorophores for color karyotyping, and at multicolor chromosome banding, wherein each chromosome acquires a specifying banding pattern, which pattern is established using groups of chromosome fragments labeled with various fluorophores or combinations of fluorophores.
Abstract:
A spectral bio-imaging method for enhancing pathologic, physiologic, metabolic and health related spectral signatures of an eye tissue, the method comprising the steps of (a) providing an optical device for eye inspection being optically connected to a spectral imager; (b) illuminating the eye tissue with light via the iris, viewing the eye tissue through the optical device and spectral imager and obtaining a spectrum of light for each pixel of the eye tissue; and (c) attributing each of the pixels a color or intensity according to its spectral signature, thereby providing an image enhancing the spectral signatures of the eye tissue.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus of analyzing an optical image of a scene to determine the spectral intensity of each pixel thereof, comprising: collecting incident light from the scene; passing the light through an interferometer which outputs modulated light corresponding to a predetermined set of linear combinations of the spectral intensity of the light emitted from each pixel; focusing the light outputted from the interferometer on a two dimensional detector array; and processing the output of the detector array to determine the spectral intensity of each pixel thereof; the interferometer being of the low-finesse translating Fabry-Perot type in which the optical path difference is varied to modulate the light by translating an element of the interferometer, such that at each instant each detector sees a different point of the scene and its signal is a linear combination of the spectral content of the light coming from each pixel, and that when the scanner completes one interferometer scan, the scene will have been scanned at all relevant linear combinations of the spectral content.
Abstract:
A method for finding L internal reference vectors for classification of L chromosomes or portions of chromosomes of a cell, the L chromosomes or portions of chromosomes being painted with K different fluorophores or combinations thereof, wherein K basic chromosomes or portions of chromosomes of the L chromosomes or portions of chromosomes are each painted with only one of the K different fluorophores, whereas the other L-K of the L chromosomes or portions of chromosomes are each painted with a different combination of the K different fluorophores, the method comprising the steps of (a) using a multi-band collection device for measuring a first vector for each pixel of each of the L chromosomes or portions of chromosomes; (b) identifying pixels belonging to each of the K basic chromosomes or portions of chromosomes and defining the pixels as basic pixels, so as to obtain K basic classes of basic pixels; (c) using at least one basic pixel from each of the K basic classes for obtaining K basic vectors, the K basic vectors being K internal reference vectors; (d) using the K basic vectors for identifying pixels belonging to the other L-K chromosomes or portions of chromosomes; and (e) using the pixels belonging to the other L-K chromosomes or portions of chromosomes for calculating the other L-K internal reference vectors, thereby finding all of the L internal reference vectors. A method for classification of L chromosomes or portions of chromosomes of a cell similarly painted using the above method for finding L internal reference vectors, and using the L reference vectors for classification of each of the pixels into one of L classification classes. And, images presenting color chromosomes.
Abstract:
A method for spatial registration and spectral correction for interferometer based spectral imaging which can be used to obtain spectral images of a moving object, the method comprising the steps of (a) using an interferometer based spectral imager for acquiring spatial and spectral information of the moving object; and (b) correcting the spatial and spectral information for movements of the moving object via a spatial registration and spectral correction procedures for obtaining corrected spatial and spectral information.