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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2001
Arthur W. Wetzel, Murrysville, PA (US);
John R. Gilbertson, II, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Valencia, PA (US);
Patricia A. Feineigle, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Christopher R. Hauser, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Frank A. Palmieri, Jr., Gibsonia, PA (US);
InterScope Technologies, Inc., Wexford, PA (US);
Abstract
An illumination system for microscopic digital montage imaging based on a pulsed light illumination source triggered by the position of a specimen with respect to the optical axis of the microscope. The strobe illumination is used to facilitate high-speed tiled (montage) image capture of otherwise static specimens with higher throughput and significantly reduced mechanical precision requirements and cost. The invention allows for perfectly aligned montage tiles at high throughputs using standard microscope optics, having camera frame rate be the limiting factor in microscopic tiled image capture.