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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Medicinal Bioconvergence Research Center, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, KR;
Pil Han Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Yeseul Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Inwon Park, Daejeon, KR;
Sunghoon Kim, Seoul, KR;
MEDICINAL BIOCONVERGENCE RESEARCH CENTER, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed are a window apparatus for obtaining a microscopic image of in vivo breast tissue and a method for using the window apparatus to obtain cell-level and molecular-level microscopic images of in vivo breast tissue while maintaining the biological environment of the in vivo breast tissue. In one embodiment, a window apparatus comprises a first chamber having a ring structure with an open window on the center, and a cover glass disposed on the upper part and breast tissue placed on the lower part; a second chamber having an opening window on the center coupled to the first chamber to support the breast tissue; and a chamber holder for fixing the first and second chambers having a tilting mount placing unit with the tilting mount placed to have the cover glass and an object lens of a confocal microscope system stay parallel to each other.