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AT404269T

Magnetic separation apparatus and methods

Abstract

Apparatus for observing magnetically responsive microscopic entities suspended in that a fluid medium, comprising: a container having a transparent wall; if a chamber formed therein for containing the fluid medium; ferromagnetic capture structure supported on the interior surface of the transparent wall; and magnetic means for inducing an internal magnetic gradient in the vicinity of the ferromagnetic capture structure, whereby the magnetically responsive entities if immobilized along the adjacent wall trapping structure; characterized in that the ferromagnetic capture structure comprises a plurality of ferromagnetic elements having a nonuniform spacing between adjacent elements.

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