摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for and a method of fully automatically and rapidly scanning and digitizing an entire microscope sample, using a computer controlled microscope slide scanner for composing image strips obtained by continuous scanning of the sample into a single continuous digital image. <P>SOLUTION: An optical microscope system 10 includes a microscope slide scanner 11. All of the microscope slide scanners 11 have a primary connection to a network 42. A preferred sample 12 is a microscope slide. An illumination optics system 32 and an imaging optics system 34 are consistent with a transmission mode optics system optimized for a diffraction-limited digital image. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |