Fiberscope for stereoscopic imaging and method for acquiring stereoscopic image data

A fiberscope for stereoscopic imaging, the fiberscope comprising:

• at least one wavefront manipulator which, for creating a sample beam, is configured to pre-shape a wavefront of light from a light source such that the pre-shaped light is focusable on an object point in an object region and raster-deflectable to a multiplicity of object points;
• an illumination fiber for supplying a pre-shaped sample beam to the object region;
• at least two detector fibers for supplying scattered light at least one of reflected and scattered at a corresponding object point to a corresponding detector configured to capture the scattered light and being connected to a computer unit;
• and,
• the computer unit being configured to compose the stereoscopic image from the captured scattered light.

A method for acquiring stereoscopic image data from a fiberscope, the method comprising:

• a) pre-shaping a wavefront of light from at least one light source via at least one wavefront manipulator such that, for creating a sample beam, pre-shaped light is focusable on an object point in an object region and can be raster-deflected to a multiplicity of object points;
• b) supplying a pre-shaped sample beam to an object region via at least one illumination fiber;
• c) focusing supplied light on the object point in the object region by way of the at least one wavefront manipulator;
• d) supplying scattered light at least one of reflected and scattered at the object point to a detector via a detector fiber;
• e) repeating steps c) and d) for at least a subset of the object points in the object region;
• and,
• f) extracting a stereoscopic image from the acquired data of the detector.