Confocal microscope

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2008-05-06

2008-05-06

Pritchett, Joshua L (Department: 2872)

Optical: systems and elements

Compound lens system

Microscope

Reexamination Certificate

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11429998

ABSTRACT:
A confocal microscope with improved light use efficiency is provided. Thus, the confocal microscope has a section which concentrates illumination light to a target point of a specimen and non-target points adjacent thereto for simultaneous illumination; a section which receives light entering into a light reception portion conjugated with the target point, without distinguishing light emitted from the target point and light emitted from the non-target points, and outputs a light reception signal according to the intensity of the light; a section which changes the number of non-target points and successively captures the light reception signals before and after the change in the number of the target points; and a section which generates a confocal signal according to intensity of light emitted from the target point, based on a relationship between the captured light reception signals and the number of non-target points.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6483641 (2002-11-01), MacAulay
patent: 9-325279 (1997-12-01), None
M. Liang et al., “Confocal Pattern Period in Multiple-Aperture Confocal Imaging Systems with Coherent Illumination,” Optics Letters, vol. 22, No. 11, Jun. 1, 1997, pp. 751-753.

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