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US 5,304,810 AGranted
Confocal scanning optical microscope
AssigneeMedical Research Council
InventorWilliam B. Amos
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Abstract
A confocal scanning optical microscope in which a specimen under test is simultaneously scanned with two distinct spots or slits of illumination and two output beams emitted from the specimen due to reflection or fluorescence are descanned and passed to separate stationary confocal apertures and detectors.
Claims10
A confocal scanning optical microscope comprising:
- an optical scanning system;
- means for simultaneously generating two or more input beams of optionally different spectral composition and of differing orientations such that after passage through the scanning system a specimen under test is scanned with two or more distinct and separate elemental areas of illumination;
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- two or more detectors respectively for receiving two or more output beams after de-scanning by the scanning means, each detector receiving an output beam substantially restricted to output light derived from one of the illuminated elemental areas.
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