Patent 8423104 was granted and assigned to McGill on April, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system for detecting haemozoin in a sample, said system including a light source for exciting the sample with an optical signal to generate a non-linear optical response, and a detector for detecting the generated non-linear optical response from the excited sample. A method for detecting haemozoin in a sample, the method including exciting the sample with an optical signal to generate a non-linear optical response from the sample, and detecting the emitted non-linear optical signal from the excited sample.