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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
Applicant:
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (US);
Inventors:
Hari Shroff, Washington, DC (US);
Andrew York, Bethesda, MD (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/0072 (2013.01); G01N 21/6458 (2013.01); G02B 21/004 (2013.01); G02B 21/0032 (2013.01); G02B 21/0076 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6478 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0633 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments for a multi-focal selective illumination microscopy (SIM) system for generating multi-focal patterns of a sample are disclosed. The multi-focal SIM system performs a focusing, scaling and summing operation on each generated multi-focal pattern in a sequence of multi-focal patterns that completely scan the sample to produce a high resolution composite image.