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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2000
John Francis Gordon, Irvine, CA (US);
The University Court of the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, GB;
Abstract
A system for conducting a histological inspection of a biological specimen supported on or in a substrate which may be provided in the form of an optically transparent disc. The disc is mounted for rotation about its central axis while a light source and detector are provided for rotation in an arc crossing the surface of the disc. The source is arranged above the disc and one or more detectors is arranged above and/or below the disc with the optical disc being provided with position and tracking encoded information which interrupts the passage of the light beam when the beam passes over it, thus allowing the scan to be aligned relative to the disc and specimen. The specimen supported on or in the disk can be displayed on a computer display using the position and tracking information.