Method and apparatus for particle measurement employing...

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G01N 15/00 (2006.01) G01N 15/04 (2006.01) G01N 21/84 (2006.01)

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CA 2487233

A system and method for measuring small particles suspended in a fluid are disclosed. The system employs optical imaging using diffraction enlargement. A sample of small particles illuminated by a light source is imaged onto a pixel array of detector elements using an imaging optical system having a reduced magnification not sufficient for forming a large enough image of a smallest particle of interest. A low- aperture imaging optics with NA < 0.05 is used to add diffraction enlargement to the image corresponding to at least 5 pixels to enable accurate measurement of images of smallest particles of interest, and to increase an optical sampling volume. Suitably programmed processor is used for determining at least a pixel count for each of the diffraction- enlarged images, and for generating a number, size or distribution of particles accounting for pre- determined diffraction enlargement of particle images of different sizes. The method enables analysis of large samples of small particles in one measurement.

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