Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Hamamatsu-Photonics K.k.

Marine Biological Laboratory

Marine Biological Labortory

Shinya Inoue

Keisuke Suzuki

Koji Ichie

Chikara Nagano

Hajime Takahashi

Naobumi Okada

A centrifuge microscope includes a disk which is rotatable around a rotation axis and which is provided with a sample chamber for accommodating a sample. An observation optical system is provided which includes an objective lens which is positioned such that the sample chamber crosses an optical axis of the objective lens as the disk rotates. A pulsed laser source is provided for emitting a pulsed laser to the sample at a timing at which the sample chamber crosses the optical axis of the objective lens. And a delay time adjusting section is provided for adjusting a delay time of an emission timing of the pulsed laser in accordance with a rotational speed of the disk.

Centrifuge microscope capable of realizing polarized light observation

A centrifuge microscope that includes: a rotary disk in which are provided a slit and a sample chamber; a light source for illumination; a projecting optical system; and an objective lens. The projecting optical system includes an imaging lens, a pair of reflecting mirrors, and a projecting lens which are constructed and arranged such that an erect image or an inverted image of the slit is projected on a sample contained in the sample chamber. During rotation of the rotary disk, the slit image and the sample sweep by each other in front of the objective lens, whereby the sample can be observed via the objective lens as a still image having better definition.

Slit scan centrifuge microscope

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Falmouth, MA, United States of America

Shinya Inoue