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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6950185 | Spectrometric imaging apparatus An inelastic diffusion spectrometric imaging apparatus includes an illuminating and energising system including a confocal first aperture and a second confocal aperture combined with the first. A first deflector assembly scanning for scanning a sample and a second d... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6943943 | Illuminating apparatus for a microscope An illuminating apparatus for a microscope comprises a condenser lens for condensing beams of illumination light from a light source and a pin-hole stop. The pin-hole stop has a pin-hole, provided on an optical axis, for transmitting only strong light beams from a c... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6943944 | Laser microscope and laser pulse width control method A laser microscope according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a laser light source configured to emit an ultra-short pulse laser beam, a storage unit configured to store at least one of dispersion data and chirp amounts of a plurality of optic... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944322 | Optical tomography of small objects using parallel ray illumination and post-specimen optical magnification A parallel-beam optical tomography system for imaging an object of interest includes a parallel ray beam radiation source that illuminates the object of interest with a plurality of parallel radiation beams. After passing through the object of interest the pattern o... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940641 | Fluorescence observation apparatus A fluorescence observation apparatus includes a light source, an illumination optical system conducting irradiation light from the light source to a specimen, an aperture member provided in the illumination optical system, a first wavelength selective member, a ligh... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6940625 | Pattern forming member applied to sectioning image observation apparatus and sectioning image observation apparatus using them In a pattern formation member adopted to a sectioning image observation apparatus which selectively irradiates a light from a light source to a sample, scans the sample, and acquires a light from the sample as a sectioning image, the pattern formation member compris... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6933154 | Optimal windows for obtaining optical data for characterization of tissue samples The invention provides methods for determining a characteristic of a tissue sample, such as a state of health, using spectral data and/or images obtained within an optimal period of time following the application of a chemical agent to the tissue sample. The inventi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930828 | In vitro fertilization microscope A dual stereo-compound microscope that is enabled to change between stereoscopic observation and compound observation while illuminating a sample with illumination. While shifting between a stereoscopic view and a compound view, the sample being viewed remains parce... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6924949 | Lens system and optical device having the same A lens system has a plurality of lenses, a stop, and a diffractive surface, the entire lens system moves during focusing, and the lens system satisfies the condition of β≧0.5, where β is a maximum photographic magnification. ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924900 | Method and microscope for detection of a specimen The present invention concerns a method and a microscope for detection of a specimen, having a light source that illuminates the specimen and an imaging system that images the specimen onto a detector. For purposes of an increase in the effective resolution capabili... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924889 | Laser capture microdissection vacuum hold-down Systems and methods for laser capture microdissection are disclosed. An inverted microscope includes a vacuum chuck subsystem that is adapted to hold a microscope slide down during the process of laser capture microdissection. The systems and methods provide the adv... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924607 | Method and apparatus for automatically shutting off a microscope An apparatus for automatically turning off a source of illumination in a microscope, comprising a switch operatively arranged to control the illumination source, and means for sensing inactivity of the switch and for turning off the illumination source after a prede... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922483 | Methods for measuring DMD low frequency spatial uniformity Methods for measuring the low spatial reflectivity uniformity of a DMD spatial light modulator. These methods are unique since they compensate for the non-uniformities introduced by the tilt angle of the DMD mirrors in addition to the normal system non-uniformities ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6919560 | Optical scanning apparatus An optical scanning apparatus including an optical system of refracting an illumination light illuminated from a light source device by a scanning lens into parallel optical beams and condensing the light by a condensing lens located at a focal position of the scann... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6914721 | Prism construction for simultaneous zero-degree and oblique illumination of a stereoscopic surgical microscope The invention concerns an apparatus for simultaneous zero-degree and oblique illumination for an optical viewing device, in particular a stereoscopic surgical microscope, which contains a shiftable prism combination (3) for deflecting a first illumination sub... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909561 | Adjustable gain detectors in RAS devices Fast, under-sampled raster scans are created and measured in order to automatically determine appropriate settings for the adjustable gain detector that is employed in the device. The non-linear nature of the detector response to gain settings, and the characteristi... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6909542 | Laser microscope A laser microscope according to the present invention comprises a laser light source which generates a laser beam, an optical path split portion which has a plurality of optical path split elements with different characteristics for separating the laser beam irradia... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6902935 | Methods of monitoring effects of chemical agents on a sample The invention provides methods and systems for monitoring effects of chemical agents on optical signals produced by samples in response to the chemical agents. Preferred methods comprise application of multiple chemical agents that interact to alter an optical signa... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898004 | Microscope system In a microscope system, illumination light rays are emitted from a light source. The illumination light rays are collimated and reflected from a mirror to the optical element array. The optical element array is located at a conjugate position of a specimen, and incl... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898005 | Microscope illumination optical system An illumination optical system for a microscope is provided wherein the illumination state can be successively changed between Koehler illumination and critical illumination while ensuring one or more conditions are satisfied so that the image of the light source il... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898367 | Method and instrument for microscopy A method for illuminating is disclosed, which is characterized by the steps of injecting (1) the light beam (13) from a laser (9) into a optical element (19), which spectrally broadens the light of the light beam (13) and shaping (... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891671 | Apparatus and methods for creating real-time 3-D images and constructing 3-D models of an object imaged in an optical system Dynamic aperture microscopy in which the portion of an objective aperture that passes light in an optical system that images an object is continuously changed to create motion parallax which continuously changes the angle from which the object is viewed to create a ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6891670 | Double confocal scanning microscope The present invention concerns a double confocal scanning microscope having an illuminating beam path (1) of a light source (2) and a detection beam path (3) of a detector (4), and in order to eliminate at their cause the problems of reco... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6891669 | Microscope system According to the present invention, there is provided a microscope system comprising an illuminating portion which illuminates a subject, an image forming lens which projects the subject illuminated by the illuminating portion onto an image pickup element, a light a... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888674 | Arrangement for examining microscopic preparations with a scanning microscope, and illumination device for a scanning microscope The arrangement for examining microscope preparations with a scanning microscope comprises a laser (1) and an optical means (12) which images the light generated by the laser (1) onto a specimen (13) that is to be examined. Provided betwe... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6879440 | Autofocus module and method for a microscope-based system An autofocus module for a microscope-based system includes at least two light sources, each of which generates a light beam for focusing. An optical directing device is provided that directs a respective portion of each light beam onto an incoupling means, which cou... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6867919 | Optical arrangement and microscope An optical arrangement for directing illumination light to a sample and for directing the detection light proceeding from the sample to a detector has a spectrally selective influencing means in the beam path of the detection light, which influences the polarization... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6862137 | Method for adjusting a lamp relative to an illuminating beam path of a microscope and a microscope suitable for carrying out the method The invention relates to a method for automatic lamp adjustment in a microscope without beam homogenizers in the illuminating beam path and a microscope equipped for the application of the method. According to the invention, the light power in the illuminating beam ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859313 | Super resolution microscope A microscope includes a first light source to emit a first light to excite a molecule of a sample to a higher energy level vibration state which belongs to a lowest energy level electron state from the ground state, a second light source to emit a second light sourc... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6853483 | Microscope In a microscope, an optical system that includes a zoom lens unit having a straight optical axis is located under a stage portion that carries a sample A thereon. An optical image of the sample A is projected on an image-pickup element via the optical system, and is... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6853482 | Microscope The microscope (S, 100) of the present invention has a hand piece (20, 112), whose tip is mounted with a thin sheet-like mirror unit (M, 10, 130, 220), and around both ends of the base (11c, 131c) thereof is arranged ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6850363 | System for introducing optical tweezers and/or a treatment beam into a laser scanning microscope An arrangement for coupling at least one beam of optical tweezers for trapping particles and/or a treatment beam into a microscope beam path, preferably in a laser scanning microscope, wherein means are provided for changing the position of the beam focus of the opt... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6844963 | Double-resonance-absorption microscope The present invention provides various embodiments of a double-resonance-absorption microscope which realizes a super-resolution by using double resonance absorption. In particular, a double-resonance-absorption microscope includes a light source for a pump light of... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6836359 | Microscope and segmenting device for a microscope A microscope, in particular for confocal scanning microscopy, having a light source (1) for illuminating an object (6) to be investigated. An optical device (9, 12) is provided for splitting transmitted light (15) passing through the obje... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6836358 | Microscope illumination optical system An illumination optical system for a microscope is provided wherein the illumination state can be successively changed between Koehler illumination and critical illumination while ensuring one or more conditions are satisfied so that the image of the light source il... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6831781 | Confocal microscopy with multi-spectral encoding and system and apparatus for spectroscopically encoded confocal microscopy A scanning confocal microscopy system and apparatus, especially useful for endoscopy with a flexible probe which is connected to the end of an optical fiber (9). The probe has a grating (12) and a lens (14) which delivers a beam of multi-spectra... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6831780 | Microscope assemblage A microscope assemblage, in particular for confocal scanning microscopy, having a light source (1) for illuminating a specimen (6) to be examined and at least one fluorescent-light detector (11, 14) for the detection of fluorescent light (10,... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6822790 | Lighting system for a stereomicroscope Illumination arrangement for a stereo microscope, preferably a Greenough type stereo microscope, comprising at least one, preferably two illumination channels which are arranged in a plane which is arranged essentially orthogonally with respect to the plane of the t... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6819485 | Optical viewing device A device for controlling the brightness of an optical signal overlaid on a specimen image includes: a main light source configured to illuminate a specimen with a main light source illumination; a main objective, configured to generate the specimen image in a viewer... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6819484 | Total internal reflection illumination apparatus and microscope using this total internal reflection illumination apparatus A total internal reflection illumination apparatus applied to a microscope which illuminates a sample through an objective having a numerical aperture enabling total internal reflection illumination, comprises a first total internal reflection mirror which is arrang... | 11/16/2004 |
