378 results about "Ft ir spectroscopy" patented technology

Excitation light for normal light observation with wavelengths in the visible spectrum, which is output from a lamp, and excitation light with wavelengths in the infrared spectrum for exciting a fluorescent substance characteristic of being accumulated readily in a lesion are irradiated simultaneously to a living tissue, to which the fluorescent substance has been administered, through an endoscope. Fluorescence components are separated from light stemming from the living tissue by means of a separator such as a dichroic mirror, introduced to a first imaging device, and then imaged. Light components with wavelengths in the visible spectrum are introduced to a second imaging device and then imaged. Signals representing the images are subjected to signal processing, whereby a video signal is produced. For better diagnosis, two images are displayed while, for example, one of the images is superimposed on the other.

Methods and apparatus for measuring cerebral O₂ saturation and detecting cerebral hypoxia-ischemia using multi-wavelength near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). Near-infrared light produced by an emitter is directed through brain tissue. The intensity of the light that passes through the brain tissue is measured using photodiode detectors positioned at distinct distances from the emitter. This process is conducted for at least three wavelengths of near-infrared light. One of the wavelengths used is substantially at an isobestic point for oxy-hemoglobin and deoxy-hemoglobin, but the other two may be any wavelengths within the near-infrared spectrum (700 nm to 900 nm), so long as one of the additional wavelengths is greater than the isobestic point and the other is less than the isobestic point. Tissue oxygenation is calculated using an algorithm derived from the Beer-Lambert law. Cerebral hypoxia-ischemia may be diagnosed using the calculated tissue oxygenation value.

A lightwave oven for cooking with light having wavelengths in the visible, near visible, and infra-red spectral ranges uses one or more quartz halogen tungsten lamps or quartz arc bulbs positioned above and below the food item and delivers light energy in select ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum during select portions of the cooking cycle.

Techniques for providing spectroscopic imaging integrates an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF), or an interferometer, and a focal plane array detector. In operation, wavelength selectivity is provided by the AOTF or the interferometer. A focal plane array detector is used as the imaging detector in both cases. Operation within the ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared (NIR) spectral regions, and into the infrared spectral region, is achieved. The techniques can be used in absorption spectroscopy and emission spectroscopy. Spectroscopic images with a spectral resolution of a few nanometers and a spatial resolution of about a micron, are collected rapidly using the AOTF. Higher spectral resolution images are recorded at lower speeds using the interferometer. The AOTF technique uses entirely solid-state components and requires no moving parts. Alternatively, the interferometer technique employs either a step-scan interferometer or a continuously modulated interferometer.

Methods and apparatuses of determining the pH of a sample. A method can comprise determining an infrared spectrum of the sample, and determining the hemoglobin concentration of the sample. The hemoglobin concentration and the infrared spectrum can then be used to determine the pH of the sample. In some embodiments, the hemoglobin concentration can be used to select an model relating infrared spectra to pH that is applicable at the determined hemoglobin concentration. In other embodiments, a model relating hemoglobin concentration and infrared spectra to pH can be used. An apparatus according to the present invention can comprise an illumination system, adapted to supply radiation to a sample; a collection system, adapted to collect radiation expressed from the sample responsive to the incident radiation; and an analysis system, adapted to relate information about the incident radiation, the expressed radiation, and the hemoglobin concentration of the sample to pH.

Provided is a surface Raman and infrared spectroscopy double-enhanced detecting method based on graphene and nanogold compounding.According to the method, light sources, a lens, a graphene nanobelt and gold nanoparticle composite substrate, an infrared Fourier spectrograph and a Raman spectrometer are included.Infrared light waves and visible light waves emitted by the infrared light source and the laser light source respectively pass through a beam combiner and then irradiate the graphene nanobelt and gold nanoparticle composite substrate, after the light waves and trace molecules adsorbed on the substrate interact, reflected light is gathered by the focusing lens to enter the infrared Fourier spectrograph, and meanwhile scattered light is gathered into the Raman spectrometer.Raman scattering signals of the trace molecules can be enhanced through the local area plasma effect of the gold nanoparticles, and meanwhile infrared absorption spectrum signals of the trace molecules can be dynamically enhanced through the graphene surface plasma effect within the broadband range.According to the method, double enhancement of surface Raman and broadband infrared spectroscopy signals is achieved on the same substrate, and the advantages of being wide in enhancement wave band, high in detecting sensitivity, wide in detected matter variety range, good in stability and the like are achieved.

Disclosed is a FT-IR spectroscopy method for the determination of the wax precipitation temperature, and the estimation of the amount of precipitated solid wax material (both crystalline and amorphous) present in a liquid hydrocarbon, such as a petroleum crude oil.

An interference coating (22) for reflecting both visible light and a portion of the region of the infrared spectrum is disclosed. The coating includes a dichroic structure of a plurality of layers of a material having a low index of refraction and a plurality of layers of a material having a high index of refraction. The coating has an average spectral high reflectance of at least 80% for wavelengths in the visible light section of the electromagnetic spectrum and of at least 50% for wavelengths in a portion of the infrared section of the electromagnetic spectrum at least 150 nm wide.

A heterodyne detection technique for highly localized IR spectroscopy based on an AFM. A pulsed IR source illuminates a sample and causes contact resonance of an AFM probe, which is a function of localized absorption. The probe is operated in intermittent contact mode and is therefore oscillated at a resonance frequency. A secondary oscillation is mixed in to the probe oscillation such that the sum of the secondary oscillation and the IR source pulse frequency is near another harmonic of the probe. A mixing effect causes measurable probe response at the other harmonic allowing data to be taken away from the pulse frequency, resulting in background effect rejection and improved spatial resolution.

Manually portable reflectance spectrometer and method of detection of absorption and reflection of light, wherein the visible and invisible (infrared) light is derived from LEDs. A phototransistor or photodiode measures the light reflected by the surface being measured, and a digital converter ADC translates the phototransistor's output into a digital format display. Three or more LEDs blue, aqua, green, yellow, orange, crimson, red and infrared provide a range of readings across the visible and infrared spectrum.

A gas measuring apparatus includes: an infrared detecting section that receives an infrared ray from a measurement area and outputs infrared spectrum data relating to the infrared ray; a variation detecting section that detects, by using the infrared spectrum data, a variation in intensity of the infrared ray, which is caused in the infrared ray that radiates from the measurement area and which is caused by a measuring object gas in the measurement area; a converting section that converts the infrared spectrum data to radiance temperature spectrum data which represent wavelengths in an infrared region and radiance temperatures at each wavelength; a background temperature detecting section that detects, as background temperature of the measuring object gas, a maximum radiance temperature from among radiance temperatures represented by the radiance temperature spectrum data; a gas temperature detecting section that detects the temperature of the measuring object gas by using a radiance temperature in a wavelength band included in the water vapor absorption band in the infrared region from among the radiance temperatures represented by the radiance temperature spectrum data; and a computing section that computes surface density of the measuring object gas on the basis of the variation in intensity of the infrared ray, the background temperature of the measuring object gas, and the temperature of the measuring object gas.

The invention discloses a spatial modulation Fourier transform infrared spectrometer based on the MOEMS technology and relates to the field of spectrum analysis instruments. The spatial modulation Fourier transform infrared spectrometer solves the problems that the FTIR is adopted in the prior art, the size is large, the weight is high, and online reliability is limited. The infrared spectrometer is based on the Michelson interferometer principle, two multistage step reflectors which are arranged in an orthogonal mode are used for replacing a movable mirror system and a fixed mirror in a system, staticizing of the system is achieved, and meanwhile the reliability, the repeatability and the real-time performance of the system are greatly improved. Real-time and online measurement on unknown objects is conveniently achieved. A grid type beam splitter is used for replacing a beam splitter and a compensating plate in a traditional Fourier transform spectrometer, the light weight of the system is achieved, a micro-reflector array is used for replacing a beam contracting system in the traditional Fourier transform spectrometer, and the requirement for the light weight and the microminiaturization of the spectrometer can be better met.