Method for operating a microscopy arrangement and microscopy arrangement having a first microscope and at least one further microscope

US10775601B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Kalkbrenner · Jena, DE
• Saskia Pergande · Jena, DE
• Jörg Siebenmorgen · Jena, DE
• Helmut Lippert · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 14, 2018
• Grant date: Sep 15, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 23, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/365
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for operating a microscopy arrangement, and a microscopy arrangement, having a first microscope and at least one further microscope, wherein each of the microscopes have a respective optical axis. The respective optical axes do not coincide. The method provides a three-dimensional reference coordinate system being set; a carrier apparatus, that is embodied in the arrangement to receive and hold a specimen carrier is introduced into a specimen plane of the first microscope that is intersected by the optical axis and onto the optical axis of the first microscope; a reference point is set on the optical axis of the first microscope; the carrier apparatus is delivered to the further microscope, wherein the current coordinates of the reference point are continuously captured and compared to the coordinates of the optical axis of the at least one further microscope; and the reference point is brought onto the optical axis of the at least one further microscope.