Prediction of a focal plane with progressive through-focus scans
US9551568B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 17, 2014 |
| Grant date | Jan 24, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B21/367
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method for operating a scanning microscope system. The optimal number of required through-focus scans, that is required to predict the position of a focal plane of the objective with respect to the object to produce the image with minimized blur, is not pre-determined but rather defined iteratively in real-time, contemporaneously with conducting the sample scanning operation itself.
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