Confocal microscopy with multi-spectral encoding

摘要

A system for imaging tissue comprises a diffractive arrangement capable of providing illumination of one or more wavelengths along a first dimension; and a lens arrangement which focuses the illumination in a direction into the tissue along a second dimension different from said first dimension, the lens arrangement receiving a returned illumination from the tissue representative of one or more locations in the tissue in accordance with the one or more wavelengths.