Microscope having an optical head and an additional head
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorsSoji Yamamoto, Mitsugu Sakai, Fumio Uchino, Yuzo Nakamura
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Abstract
A microscope having an optical head and an additional head is disclosed. A slide plate on which the additional head and optical head are arranged in such a manner that they are separated by a predetermined spacing in the Y direction is slidably secured to an arm of the microscope. Under such a construction, an observation by a raster image and an optical observation by a optical image can be performed precisely for the same region of a specimen by moving the additional head and optical head integrally by a distance substantially equal to the spacing by means of the slide plate.
Claims15
A microscope comprising an optical head for observing an optical image of a specimen and at least one additional head for observing a raster image of the specimen on a specimen stage by scanning the specimen in a main-scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction substantially perpendicular to the main-scanning direction, comprising a supporting means for supporting said additional head and optical head arranged separately from each other by a predetermined distance, said supporting means being slidable in a such manner that a center point of a raster image field is made identical with a center point of an optical image field, wherein said supporting means is slidable in a direction substantially parallel to the sub-scanning direction.
A microscope comprising an optical head for observing an optical image of a specimen and at least one additional head for observing a raster image of the specimen on a specimen stage by scanning the specimen in a main-scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction substantially perpendicular to the main-scanning direction, comprising a supporting means for supporting said additional head and optical head arranged separately from each other by a predetermined distance, said supporting means being slidable in a such manner that a center point of a raster image field is made identical with a center point of an optical image field, wherein said supporting means is slidable in a direction substantially parallel to the main-scanning direction.
A microscope comprising an optical head for observing an optical image of a specimen and at least one additional head for observing a raster image of the specimen on a specimen stage by scanning the specimen in a main-scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction substantially perpendicular to the main-scanning direction, comprising a supporting means for supporting said additional head and optical head arranged separately from each other by a predetermined distance, said supporting means being slidable in a such manner that a center point of a raster image field is made identical with a center point of an optical image field, wherein relative positional relations among said optical head, additional head and specimen stage are further varied in accordance with a magnification of a raster image to be observed by said additional head.
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