摘要:
A compact microscope comprising an enclosure,a support element, a primary optical support element located within the enclosure and supported by the support element, at least one vibration isolating mount between the support element and the primary optical support element, a sample stage supported on the primary optical support element to support a sample, a return optical system to receive returned light from a sample and transmit returned light to a detection apparatus, wherein the return optical system is mounted on the primary optical support element, and wherein the compact microscope comprises at least one of the following elements; a) an objective lens system, the objective lens system being supported on the primary optical support element, an illumination section and an illumination optical system to direct an illumination light beam from the illumination section to the sample stage, and a mirror disposed above the sample stage, the illumination optical system being arranged to direct light through the objective lens system to the mirror; b) a temperature-control system, the temperature control system comprising a temperature control circuit comprising a plurality of fluid-carrying channels within at least one of the enclosure and the primary optical support element; and c) the return optical system being operable to separate returned light into at least a first wavelength band and a second wavelength band, and the detection apparatus comprising an imaging apparatus, the return optical system having a first tube lens to focus returned light in a first wavelength band to a first area of the imaging apparatus and a second tube lens to focus returned light in a second wavelength band to a second area of the imaging apparatus.
摘要:
A microscope apparatus includes: a distribution measurement apparatus which - with respect to an observation region wherein a sample is arranged which comprises a fluorescent material that is activated when irradiated with an activating light of a prescribed wavelength, and that emits fluorescence when irradiated in an activated condition with an exciting light of a wavelength that differs from that of the activating light - obtains a fluorescent picture image by conducting irradiation with the exciting light, and measures a fluorescent intensity distribution of the observation region; an irradiation intensity setting apparatus which sets irradiation intensities of the activating light for respective portions of the observation region based on the fluorescent intensity distribution; and a picture image formation apparatus which obtains a plurality of the fluorescent picture images by multiply repeating operations comprising an operation wherein the observation region is irradiated with the activating light at the irradiation intensities that have been set in the respective portions, and an operation wherein a fluorescent picture image is obtained by irradiating the observation region with the exciting light after the activating light irradiation, and which generates a sample picture image from the plurality of the fluorescent picture images.
摘要:
An observing apparatus includes: a photographic unit that takes a region where cells are present as an observation object region based upon a macro image captured at low magnification of an interior of a cell culture vessel, and photographs the cells in the observation object region; an illuminating unit that irradiates light upon the cells only during photography by the photographic unit; and an output unit that outputs a fluorescent image photographed by the photographic unit while irradiating light only during photography by the illuminating unit.
摘要:
The invention relates to an illumination filter (36, 44) for an illumination filter system (2) for medical imaging, in particular multispectral fluorescence imaging, as performed e.g. in a microscope (1) or endoscope, in particular a multispectral fluorescence microscope. The present invention provides an illumination filter for medical imaging, in particular a multispectral fluorescence imaging, that is capable of capturing simultaneously more than one fluorescence signal, and allow a homogeneous illumination for obtaining different images from the object illuminated by comprising a spatial filter pattern (43) masking a defined filtering fraction of a first illumination path (47) on the filter and masking a defined filtering fraction of a second illumination path (48, 49, 50) on the filter, wherein the filtering fraction of the first and the second illumination paths (47, 48, 49, 50) are different. The invention further relates to an illumination filter system (2) for medical imaging, in particular multispectral fluorescence imaging, as performed e.g. in a microscope (1) or endoscope, in particular a multispectral fluorescence microscope, comprising such illumination filter (36, 44)
摘要:
Certain aspects pertain to aperture-scanning Fourier ptychographic imaging devices comprising an aperture scanner that can generate an aperture at different locations at an intermediate plane of an optical arrangement, and a detector that can acquire lower resolution intensity images for different aperture locations, and wherein a higher resolution complex image may be constructed by iteratively updating regions in Fourier space with the acquired lower resolution images.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method comprising steps of: providing spatially-structured activation radiation having relatively high- and relatively low-intensity regions to a sample that includes phototransformable optical labels ("PTOLs") to activate a subset of the PTOLs in the sample located predominately at relatively high intensity regions of the spatially-structured activation radiation; providing spatially-structured excitation radiation to the subset of activated PTOLs in the sample, wherein the exciting radiation is structured so that one or more relatively high intensity regions of the excitation radiation at least partially overlap one or more relatively high intensity regions of the activating radiation; detecting radiation emitted from the activated and excited PTOLs with imaging optics; and controlling the intensities and spatial structures of the activating radiation and the exciting radiation so that radiation emitted from PTOLs in the sample is emitted substantially from at least one volume that is comparable to or less than a diffraction-limited resolution volume ("DLRV") of the imaging optics. The PTOLs may be formed by photoactivated or photoswitched fluorescent proteins. The invention also relates to a corresponding system.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for light sheet microscopy. The arrangement comprises: - means for scanning a sample volume (10) to be imaged with a light sheet (9), which encloses an angle δ ≠ 90° with the optical axis (8) of an objective lens (1), wherein - the light sheet (9) penetrates in the propergation direction the entire sample volume (10) to be imaged, and wherein - the depth of focus S obj of the objective lens (1) is smaller than the depth T of said sample volume (10) in the direction of the optical axis (8), - an optical device downstream of the objective, designed to increase the depth of focus S obj to a depth of focus S eff , which is greater than or equal to the depth T of said sample volume (10), - means for positioning the sample volume (10) within the region of the depth of focus S eff , - a spatial opto-electronic surface sensor (17) downstream of the optical device, and hardware and software, designed for generating images of the sample volume (10) from the electronic image signals emitted from the surface sensor (17).
摘要:
Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a fresh tissue sample, prepared as to fluoresce under illumination, during a medical procedure. A structured light source is configured to project a spatially patterned light beam onto the fresh tissue sample. An imaging system is configured to produce an image from fluorescence emitted from the illuminated fresh tissue sample. A system control is configured to provide a human-comprehensible clinically useful output associated with the medical procedure.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method comprising steps of: providing spatially-structured activation radiation having relatively high- and relatively low-intensity regions to a sample that includes phototransformable optical labels ("PTOLs") to activate a subset of the PTOLs in the sample located predominately at relatively high intensity regions of the spatially-structured activation radiation; providing spatially-structured excitation radiation to the subset of activated PTOLs in the sample, wherein the exciting radiation is structured so that one or more relatively high intensity regions of the excitation radiation at least partially overlap one or more relatively high intensity regions of the activating radiation; detecting radiation emitted from the activated and excited PTOLs with imaging optics; and controlling the intensities and spatial structures of the activating radiation and the exciting radiation so that radiation emitted from PTOLs in the sample is emitted substantially from at least one volume that is comparable to or less than a diffraction-limited resolution volume ("DLRV") of the imaging optics. The PTOLs may be formed by photoactivated or photoswitched fluorescent proteins. The invention also relates to a corresponding system.