SCANNING COMPUTED CONFOCAL IMAGER

摘要

There is provided a confocal imager comprising a light source emitting light (11), with light modulating apparatus (32) in optical communication with the light source for varying the spatial and temporal pattern of the light. Beam splitting system (22) receives the scanned light and directs the scanned light onto a target (15) and passes light reflected from the target to video capturing system (34) for receiving the reflected light and transferring a digital image of the reflected light to a computer (36) for creating a virtual aperture and outputting the digital image. In a transmissive mode of operation the invention omits the beam splitting system and captures light passed through the target.