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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
May. 15, 1998
Takeo Tanaami, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Otsuki, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhito Kosugi, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Tomosada, Tokyo, JP;
Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Confocal microscopic equipment that can photograph confocal images at high speed and with good signal to noise ratio, wherein the equipment obtains confocal images by rotating a disk having a plurality of apertures and by scanning a sample on which light beams passing through the apertures are focused; and comprising a light source, an optical microscope, a high speed camera that photographs confocal images, a high speed confocal scanner that scans a sample with an output light beam from the light source via the optical microscope, and outputs the return light from the sample to the high speed camera, and a memory that stores confocal images photographed with the high speed camera on a real time basis.