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Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2013
Applicant:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takeshi Kawano, Tokyo, JP;

Shigeru Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/02 (2006.01); G01B 9/02 (2006.01); G01N 21/47 (2006.01); G01N 21/17 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02091 (2013.01); G01N 21/4795 (2013.01); G01B 9/02044 (2013.01); G01B 9/02087 (2013.01); G01N 2021/1787 (2013.01);
Abstract

An optical coherence tomography observation apparatus comprising a controller () and a detector (), the controller being configured to illuminate first illumination light to an observation object, cause an image generator to generate a first tomographic image showing tomography of the observation object, illuminate second illumination light to the observation object, and cause the image generator to generate a second tomographic image showing tomography of the observation, and the detector being configured to detect a relative position of the second tomographic image with respect to the first tomographic image, at which a correlation of the second tomographic image with the first tomographic image becomes highest, are provided.


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