Microscope system

US8040599B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CARL ZEISS SURGICAL GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Steffen · Lauchheim, DE
• Helge Jess · Oberkochen, DE
• Christoph Hauger · Aalen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 2007
• Grant date: Oct 18, 2011
• Expiry date: May 4, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/22
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A microscope system is for sequential observation of different fluorescent dyes that are accumulated in a tissue in an object plane. An illumination system and an observation system have at least two operating states. In one operating state, illumination radiation has a spectrum that includes an excitation band of a first fluorescent dye and is partly free from an excitation band of another fluorescent dye. In one operating state of the observation system, observation radiation guided in the first observation optical path has a spectrum in sections of the first observation optical path, which includes a first fluorescence band of the first fluorescent dye, while in another operating state observation radiation has a spectrum in at least some sections which is partly free from the first fluorescence band. A controller is configured to selectively switch the illumination system and the observation system into the first and second operating states.