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Method for illuminating a sample

US7676071B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH · DE

Inventor

Bernd Widzgowski · Dossenheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 3, 2006
Grant date	Mar 9, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 7, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B21/008
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for illuminating a specimen or a region of the specimen (region of interest, ROI), the information indicating whether and in what manner a specific point on the specimen is to be illuminated, being stored in a data memory under a specific address. A change in the position, orientation, and/or shape of the specimen is captured, and a transformation of the coordinates of the image points to be illuminated is derived therefrom; memory addresses are uniquely assigned to the transformed coordinates; and, on the basis of the memory addresses, the data memory is accessed, and its contents is read out in order to control the light source.

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