Device and method for generating an image of an object
AssigneeCarl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
InventorsMichael Kempe, Ralf Wolleschensky
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Abstract
A device for generating an image of an object is provided, comprising an illumination module, by means of which the object can be illuminated with a pattern whose phase is altered temporally, a recording module, by means of which a plurality of recordings of the object are carried out during the phase change of the pattern, and a processing module, which generates the image from the recordings, wherein the illumination module moves a light beam over the object and modulates its intensity synchronously with the movement such that the beam generates the pattern in scanning fashion.
Claims14
A device for generating an image of an object, comprising
- an illumination module with which an object can be illuminated with a pattern, the phase of which is temporally changed;
- an exposure module with which several exposures of said object can be executed during the phase change of the pattern;
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- a processing module that produces the image from the exposures;
- wherein said illumination module moves a light beam over the object and focuses said light beam on the specimen in a punctiform or linear manner temporally modulates the intensity thereof synchronously with the movement thereby effecting spatial modulation of the intensity on the sample in such a way that the beam produces the pattern by means of scanning.
A method for generating an image of an object comprising:
- illuminating an object with a periodic pattern, the phase of which is temporally changed, repeatedly exposing the object during the phase change, and generating an image from the exposures,
- wherein in the illumination step a light beam, the intensity of which is temporally modulated, is moved over the object, with the movement and intensity modulation of the light beam being synchronized thereby effecting spatial modulation of the intensity on the sample in such a way that the beam produces the pattern by means of scanning, and wherein said beam is focused in a punctiform or linear manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.