| 摘要 |
Provided is a cell observation apparatus and an observation method with which only an observation target cell in an region of interest is illuminated with illuminating light to prevent photobleaching of cells that are not the observation target. The invention employs a cell observation apparatus including an objective lens that illuminates a specimen with illuminating light, a scanner that adjusts an area illuminated with illuminating light by the objective lens, an image generating portion 31 that generates an image of the specimen illuminated by the objective lens, a cell-data extracting portion 32 that extracts data showing the characteristics of each cell from the generated image of the specimen, a cell-area extracting portion 33 that extracts an area of each cell associated with the extracted data of each cell, a cell-of-interest selecting portion 35 that selects the cell of interest from the specimen in accordance with the extracted data of each cell, and a controller that operates the scanner to illuminate the cell area corresponding to the cell of interest selected by the cell-of-interest selecting portion 35 with the illuminating light. |
