Study On Circuit Of Laser Confocal Biochip Scanner

The magic of biochip analysis is sweeping through the agricultural and medical sciences, replacing traditional biological assays based on gels, filters, and purification columns with small glass chips containing tens of thousands of DNA and protein sequences. Biochip function like biological microprocessors, enabling the rapid and quantitative analysis of gene expression patterns, patient genotypes, drug mechanisms, and disease onset and progression on a genomic scale. Biochip detection instruments are revolutionizing biology. These ingenious devices allow biochips to be read in an automated fashion, providing an amount of data in a few minutes that would have taken months or even years to acquire with antecedent technologies.In this technique, fluorescence intensities, which reflect the degree of biochemical reaction, are detected by imaging the array with a laser and capturing the image with a photomultiplier tube or a CDD camera, resulting in the production of digital images. The images from the reaction arrays constitute the essential raw data for biochip. Therefore, biochip scanner and robust image processing are particularly important and have large impacts on downstream analysis. This project is come from National Engineering Research Center for Beijing Biochip Technology. The project is supported by "863" project on biochip, which is studying on laser confocal biochip scanner and CCD biochip scanner. The target is working out a cheap and work well laser confocal biochip scanner, which can be used in clinic diagnosis. In this paper, the basic concepts and general application flows of biochip technology are introduced, including the detailed principles of fluorescence detections for biochip. We discuss the principle of biochip scanner and the latest development and research in the world; we also introduce our design of biochip including its principle figures and structure figures. We introduce in detail that the system's hardware and the embedded software. The performances, including linearity, sensitivity, repeatability and so on, are tested with special methods. This biochip scanner is a high performance detection system.