Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080246839 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - It is possible to check for observation success or failure and the observation history without waiting for observation to be completely finished, thus saving time and energy required for observation, and avoiding lost opportunities for observation of precious samples etc. Provided is a microscope apparatus including an image acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of frame images while varying a plurality of parameters; an image saving unit for successively saving the frame images acquired by the image acquisition unit; a property-information saving unit for saving property information in which identifying information of the saved frame images is associated with the parameters; and a control unit for controlling these units, wherein the control unit saves updated property information in the property-information saving unit each time the frame image is saved in the image saving unit. | 10-09-2008 |
20080247038 | SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE - A scanning confocal microscope can provide an image while preventing a decrease in brightness and blurring due to strain caused in optical and mechanical systems by thermal effects in a high-temperature, high-humidity incubation container. This scanning confocal microscope includes an incubation container that has a space in which a specimen is disposed and that can maintain an internal environment thereof at a predetermined temperature and high humidity and an optical system space adjacent to the incubation container and separated therefrom based on humidity. The optical system space accommodates a light-scanning unit and a scanner optical system, an objective lens, a confocal pinhole, and a focus adjustment mechanism. The optical system space further accommodates a temperature-maintaining unit for the optical system space to maintain the optical system space at a temperature substantially equal to the temperature in the incubation container. | 10-09-2008 |
20080252967 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - An image can be prevented from becoming unclear over time during long-term observation. The invention provides a microscope apparatus including a specimen container for containing a specimen; an objective lens disposed opposite the specimen container for collecting light from the specimen in the specimen container; an immersion-liquid supplying unit for supplying immersion liquid to a space between the objective lens and the specimen container; and an immersion-liquid removing unit for removing the immersion liquid from the space between the objective lens and the specimen container. The immersion-liquid removing unit includes a nozzle for ejecting compressed air to the space between the objective lens and the specimen container. | 10-16-2008 |
20090290150 | LASER MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - To enable both observations of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering light and multiphoton fluorescence in a same apparatus so as to observe a specimen by various observation methods. There is provided a laser microscope apparatus comprising: two optical paths for guiding pulsed laser beams having two different frequencies whose frequency difference is approximately equal to a specific molecular vibration frequency in a specimen; a multiplexer for combining the pulsed laser beams guided through these two optical paths; and a frequency dispersion adjuster which is provided on at least one of these two optical paths, and is capable of adjustment to approximately equalize frequency dispersion quantities of the pulsed laser beams guided through the two optical paths. | 11-26-2009 |
20100294949 | SCANNING MICROSCOPE DEVICE - Spectrum detection is performed at a high S/N ratio, high sensitivity, and high speed. Provided is a scanning microscope device that includes a light source that irradiates a sample with laser light; an X-Y galvanometer mirror that scans the laser light from the light source on the sample; an objective lens that irradiates the sample with the laser light scanned by the X-Y galvanometer mirror and collects fluorescence generated at an irradiated position of the laser light; a non-descan-detection excitation DM that is disposed between the X-Y galvanometer mirror and the objective lens and separates the laser light and the fluorescence from each other; an fiber for epi-fluorescence that receives the separated fluorescence through an entrance end thereof, guides the fluorescence, and emits the fluorescence from an exit end thereof that is formed in a substantially linear shape; a diffraction grating that disperses the fluorescence emitted from the exit end of the fiber for epi-fluorescence in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the exit end; and a multi-anode PMT having a plurality of cells arrayed in the dispersing direction of the fluorescence dispersed by the diffraction grating. | 11-25-2010 |
20110001815 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - To organize and store a plurality of types of image information acquired by a plurality of image acquisition methods at different timings. There is provided a microscope apparatus comprising a time counting unit for counting time, a plurality of different image acquisition units, and a storage unit for storing image information, when acquired by any one of the image acquisition units, and timing information counted by the time counting unit, by having them associated with each other. Even if the image acquisition units acquire different types of image information at different timings, it is possible, by using the timing information as a clue, to call up the image information stored in the storage unit in a chronological order. | 01-06-2011 |
20110089339 | LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE - Provided is a laser scanning microscope that allows stable examination by eliminating the influence of ambient light while inhibiting damage to a specimen and fading of fluorescence. Employed is a laser scanning microscope | 04-21-2011 |
20110102888 | MICROSCOPE - Provided is a microscope that allows irradiation with uniform illumination light without decreasing the amount of light. Employed is a microscope | 05-05-2011 |
20110121198 | LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE - Provided is a laser scanning microscope with which it is possible to reduce the time required for scanning and to detect light from a sample with high sensitivity. Provided is a laser scanning microscope | 05-26-2011 |
20110134516 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a microscope system. The microscope system includes a culture unit for holding and cultivating a specimen while maintaining constant temperature and humidity; a stage for holding the culture unit; a first light-converging optical system for converging illumination light emitted from a light source on the specimen; a second light-converging optical system for converging transmitted light that has passed through the specimen; a transmitted-light pinhole provided at a position optically conjugate to the light-converging position of illumination light on the specimen to cut off part of transmitted light converged by the second light-converging optical system; a transmitted-light detector that detects transmitted light that has passed through the transmitted-light pinhole; a moving system for moving the first and second light-converging optical systems, the transmitted-light pinhole, and the transmitted-light detector and the stage relative to each other; a housing that encloses these components and cuts off external light; and a temperature control unit for controlling temperature in the housing. | 06-09-2011 |