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Device for microscopy having selective illumination of a plane

US8921809B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH · DE

Inventors

Helmut Lippert · Jena, DE
Christopher Power · Jena, DE
Christian Dietrich · Jena, DE
Benno Radt · Jena, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 4, 2009
Grant date	Dec 30, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 24, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B21/10
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A microscopy device, particularly for use in an imaging fluorescence lifetime microscopy method is provided. The microscopy device comprises an illumination means for generating an illumination beam, an imaging detector for spatially resolved acquisition of an emission radiation emitted by an object to be examined, an illumination beam path between the illumination means and the object to be examined, and a detection beam path between the object to be examined and the detector. The illumination beam path comprises illumination optics which are designed to generate a light sheet of illumination radiation extending transverse to the axis of the illumination beam path, wherein the axis of the detection beam path is oriented substantially perpendicular to a section plane of the light sheet and of the object to be examined. The illumination means comprise a pulsed laser.

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