A device for analyzing immunoassays with a liquid assay medium includes a vessel
for holding the assay medium. The vessel has a base comprised of a solid body having
a first side wall and a top surface forming a boundary surface of the solid body.
First reaction agents are dissolved in the assay medium in the vessel and are labeled
with a luminophore or different luminophores and second reaction agents are bonded
to the boundary surface within a boundary layer of the assay medium. A transmitter
for emitting light rays is arranged so that the light rays are coupled into the
base of the vessel via the first side wall and conducted at the total reflection
angle to the boundary surface so that luminophore-labeled first reaction agents
that are bonded to the second reaction agents are optically excited by at least
some of the light rays and emit fluorescent and/or phosphorescent rays. A receiver
is positioned for quantitatively detecting the fluorescent rays and/or phosphorescent rays.