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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098428 | Circular dichroism fluorescent microscope Example embodiments relate to a circular dichroism fluorescent microscope having a confocal section. In the circular dichroism fluorescent microscope, a circularly polarizing/modulating section converts, into right and left circularly polarized lights, a light beam ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7872799 | Device for controlling light radiation Device for controlling light radiation, which is excited in a specimen and/or which is backscattered and/or reflected and which contains one or more wavelengths, at a plurality of light outlets, wherein a separation of the light radiation into differently polarized ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7746552 | Illumination module for evanescent illumination and microscope A microscope with a light source that produces an illumination light beam for evanescently illuminating a sample includes an adjustment mechanism with which the polarization of the illumination light beam may be changed. ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7719760 | Optical microscope system for detecting nanowires using polarizer and fast fourier transform Provided is an optical microscope system for detecting nanowires to allow for use of an existing optical microscope in fabricating an electronic device having the nanowires and including: a light source for emitting light to provide the light to a nanowire sample; a... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7701632 | Method and arrangement for changing the spectral composition and/or intensity of illumination light and/or specimen light in an adjustable manner Method and arrangement for changing the spectral composition and/or intensity of illumination light and/or specimen light in an adjustable manner, wherein a spatial separation into radiation components of different polarization is carried out with a first polarizing... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7660036 | Method for particle analysis and particle analysis system A particle analysis system has an optical imaging device, e.g., a reflecting light stereomicroscope, that images a particle accumulation onto a substantially planar substrate. An illuminating device that includes a ring light on a lens barrel of the stereomicroscope... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7605976 | Method and device for changing light in an adjustable manner Method and device for changing the illumination light and/or specimen light with respect to its spectral composition and/or intensity in an adjustable manner, wherein a spatial separation into the radiation components of different polarization is carried out with th... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7405875 | System microscope A system microscope has a specimen mounting part which mounts a specimen, an inverted microscope including an illumination path which radiates illumination light from under the specimen mounting part, and an observation optical path which acquires detection light em... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7372985 | Systems and methods for volumetric tissue scanning microscopy In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention, a method for imaging tissue, for example, includes the steps of mounting the tissue on a computer controlled stage of a microscope, determining volumetric imaging parameters, directing at least two p... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369307 | Light raster microscope and its use In a light raster scanning microscope with a spot illumination arrangement (2) which provides an illumination beam for the illumination of a sample (23) in the form of points or point groups, a scanning arrangement (3, 4) which guides the illumi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365909 | Fabrication methods for micro compounds optics Methods for fabricating refractive element(s) and aligning the elements in a compound optic, typically to a zone plate element. The techniques are used for fabricating micro refractive, such as Fresnel, optics and compound optics including two or more optical elemen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358490 | Methods and apparatus of spatially resolved electroluminescence of operating organic light-emitting diodes using conductive atomic force microscopy A conductive atomic force microscopy (cAFM) technique which can concurrently monitor topography, charge transport, and electroluminescence with nanometer spatial resolution. This cAFM approach is particularly well suited for probing the electroluminescent response c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7335874 | Method and apparatus for generating a circularly polarized illumination beam A method and apparatus for illuminating a subject with deep UV light and detecting 2-dimensional image information, e.g., a transmission image, fluorescence image, reflected light image, etc. The subject may be illuminated with a light pulse having a duration of 2 s... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329880 | Multiphoton-excitation laser scanning microscope A compact and inexpensive multiphoton-excitation laser scanning microscope for observing fluorescence by multiphoton excitation having a plurality of wavelengths by irradiating a specimen with ultrashort pulsed laser light having a plurality of wavelengths is provid... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326451 | Rotatory polarization plate, optical element, light condensation backlight system and liquid crystal display A rotatory polarization plate capable of extracting an emission polarized light from an incident polarized light and rotating an azimuth angle of an polarization axis of the incident polarized light, wherein a rotatory polarization angle of the azimuth angle is chan... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327470 | Spatial and spectral wavefront analysis and measurement A method and apparatus for wavefront analysis including obtaining a plurality of differently phase changed transformed wavefronts corresponding to a wavefront being analyzed which has an amplitude and a phase, obtaining a plurality of intensity maps of the plurality... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324273 | Confocal self-interference microscopy from which side lobe has been removed The present invention relates to confocal self-interference microscopy. The confocal self-interference microscopy further includes a first polarizer for polarizing reflected or fluorescent light from a specimen, a first birefringence wave plate for separating the li... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312866 | Methods and systems for substrate surface evaluation A method for determining a surface quality of a substrate sample using a differential interference contrast microscope is described. The microscope includes an eyepiece, an eyepiece focus adjustment, a microscope focus adjustment, a light source, at least one of an ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310547 | Fluorescent fiberoptic probe for tissue health discrimination A system and method for the in situ discrimination of healthy and diseased tissue. A fiberoptic based probe is employed to direct ultraviolet illumination onto a tissue specimen and to collect the fluorescent response radiation. The response radiation is observed at... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7309867 | Methods and apparatus for characterization of tissue samples The invention provides methods for determining the probability that a given region of a tissue sample contains tissue of a given category, such as CIN 1 (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, grade 1), CIN 2/3 (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grades 2 and/or 3), no... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304791 | Optical microscope apparatus using convergent beam as illumination light The optical microscope apparatus comprises an illuminating element for emitting as illumination light a convergent beam converging at a point in space; a sample mounting table for mounting a sample in front of the converging point of illumination light; and an objec... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304815 | Laser system A laser system and interferometer are disclosed comprising a laser source for generating a laser beam, and first and second adjustable elements wherein the first and second adjustable elements have limited rotational motion so rotation of the first adjustable elemen... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301697 | Microscope device Specularly reflected light from a convergence position on an object surface 31 enters a second critical-angle prism 14, another prism 15, and a first critical-angle prism 13 of a parallel beam selection optical system 20 in this or... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298551 | Method and arrangement for changing the spectral composition and/or intensity of illumination light and/or specimen light in an adjustable manner Method and arrangement for changing the spectral composition and/or intensity of illumination light and/or specimen light in an adjustable manner, wherein a spatial separation into radiation components of different polarization is carried out with a first polarizing... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292389 | Circular extinction contrast imaging microscope Systems and methods for producing circular extinction (CE) contrast images of anisotropic samples. Microscope systems for determining circular extinction (CE), the differential transmission of left and right circularly polarized light resulting from circular dichroi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286286 | Stereo microscope There is disclosed a stereo microscope comprising an illuminating section disposed on a base on which a sample is laid, and constituted by a plurality of light emitting diodes mounted on a planar substrate. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282723 | Methods and apparatus for processing spectral data for use in tissue characterization The invention provides methods for processing tissue-derived spectral data for use in a tissue classification algorithm. Methods of the invention comprise application of spectral and/or image masks for automatically separating ambiguous or unclassifiable spectral da... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277169 | Whole spectrum fluorescence detection with ultrafast white light excitation A fluorescence detection system for testing a sample having at least one fluorophore. The fluorescence detection system comprises a white light generation system outputting a white light pulse. The white light pulse has a first frequency range and a first time durat... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272091 | Birefringence characteristic measuring method, optical recording medium and optical information recording/reproducing apparatus Four types of optical systems, a polarization optical system including an objective lens having a high numerical aperture, a polarization optical system including an objective lens having a low numerical aperture, a non-polarization optical system including an objec... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260248 | Image processing using measures of similarity The invention provides methods of relating a plurality of images based on measures of similarity. The methods of the invention are useful in the segmentation of a sequence of colposcopic images of tissue, for example. The methods may be applied in the determination ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248282 | Microscopy imaging system and method A microscopy imaging system and method acquires digital images of a microscope specimen using a computer-controlled microscope and digital camera. A specimen on a microscope slide is placed within the microscope. The method comprises the steps of determining whether... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236298 | Illumination apparatus for microscope and image processing apparatus using the same An illumination apparatus for a microscope and an image processing apparatus using the illumination apparatus include a light source, a semi-transmissive mirror splitting a light beam from the light source into two beams of the first and second irradiation light, tw... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7221447 | Consumable for laser capture microdissection Systems and methods for acquiring laser capture microdissection samples are disclosed. A scattering media is located within a beam path defined by the laser capture microdissection microscope and the sample is imaged through the scattering media. A transfer film car... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215468 | Confocal microscope A confocal microscope comprises a light source unit having at least two light sources which generate lights having different wavelengths, an objective lens which condenses light from the light source unit on a sample, a light scanning unit which scans the light form... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215469 | Confocal microscope A confocal microscope comprises a light source emitting a polarized light beam, an objective lens irradiating the polarized light beam, which is deflected and scanned by the optical scanner, to the sample as an excitation light beam, a wavelength separator detecting... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209293 | Optical imaging system having an expand depth of field An optical imaging system, for example, for a surgical microscope (100) has a beam deflecting unit in order to cast light rays out of an object region (112) into an image plane (104) with an optical beam path. An optical phase plate (107)... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7193774 | Sub-diffraction limit resolution in microscopy A method and apparatus for visualizing sub-micron size particles employs a polarizing microscope wherein a focused beam of polarized light is projected onto a target, and a portion of the illuminating light is blocked from reaching the specimen, whereby to produce a... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187810 | Methods and systems for correcting image misalignment The invention provides methods of determining a correction for a misalignment between at least two images in a sequence of images due at least in part to sample movement. The methods are applied, for example, in the processing and analysis of a sequence of images of... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7173447 | Method and apparatus for diagnosing fault in semiconductor device An apparatus for diagnosing a fault in a semiconductor device includes an laser applying unit, a detection/conversion unit, and a fault diagnosis unit. The semiconductor device is held at a state where no bias voltage is applied thereto. The laser applying unit then... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170969 | X-ray microscope capillary condenser system A radiation condenser system for an X-ray microscope allows for the efficient collection and relay of radiation from a source to the sample. It generates a converging hollow cone of radiation that can be used in the imaging of a sample or target using a zone plate l... | 01/30/2007 |
