Abstract: Appropriate measurement and analysis parameters are set according to cerebral function to be measured. To measure gustatory function, a time period of absence of cerebral activity to be measured is set so as not to contain a period of 60 seconds after start of stimulation, an activity period for analysis for an oxyhemoglobin concentration change signal is set so as to contain a period between an instant after a lapse of 16 seconds, and an instant after a lapse of 25 seconds, after the start of the stimulation, and an activity period for analysis for a deoxyhemoglobin concentration change signal is set so as to contain a period between an instant after a lapse of 28 seconds and an instant after a lapse of 37 seconds after the start of the stimulation. Moreover, a time interval between stimulations is set to 80 seconds or more.

Abstract: Appropriate measurement and analysis parameters are set according to cerebral function to be measured. To measure gustatory function, a time period of absence of cerebral activity to be measured is set so as not to contain a period of 60 seconds after start of stimulation, an activity period for analysis for an oxyhemoglobin concentration change signal is set so as to contain a period between an instant after a lapse of 16 seconds, and an instant after a lapse of 25 seconds, after the start of the stimulation, and an activity period for analysis for a deoxyhemoglobin concentration change signal is set so as to contain a period between an instant after a lapse of 28 seconds and an instant after a lapse of 37 seconds after the start of the stimulation. Moreover, a time interval between stimulations is set to 80 seconds or more.

Abstract: A membrane filter for microbe detection that realizes low fluorescent background, being applicable to staining combining fluorescent dyes of variable wavelengths, and that attains enhanced operationality. There is provided a membrane filter for microbe detection, comprising a polymer layer of 10 to 500 ?m thickness and, superimposed thereon, a metal layer of 0.1 nm to 1 ?m thickness. Further, there is provided a method of microbe detection wherein microbe detection is carried out with the use of the membrane filter for microbe detection according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

Abstract: An inspection equipment can be provided, which captures microbes in a sample solution with a filter, and detects information about microbes from a sample obtained by fluorescence-staining the microbes. The filter is irradiated with different excitation light beams (1, 2), and binary images (A, B, C) of fluorescences obtained in the respective fields in correspondence with the respective excitation light beams are sensed. The binary images (A, B, C) obtained with respect to the respective excitation light beams (1, 2) are compared to automatically identify the binary image B, which emits fluorescence with respect to only a specific excitation light beam (e.g., 1), as a fluorescent image based on a microbe, and the binary images A and C, which emit fluorescence with respect to all the excitation light beams, as fluorescent images other than those of microbes, thereby easily identifying microbes in the sample solution in an unmanned fashion.