CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY WITH MULTI-SPECTRAL ENCODING AND SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SPECTROSCOPICALLY ENCODED CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a non-invasive imaging technology with a resolution that approaches standard histopathology for the detection of early stages of cancer and clinical procedures such as screening for cancer and the surgical detection of tumor margins.;SOLUTION: A scanning confocal microscopy system and apparatus, especially useful for endoscopy with a flexible probe which is connected to the end of an optical fiber 9. The probe has a grating 12 and lens 14 which deliver a beam of multi-spectral light having spectral components which extend in one dimension across a region of an object, and which are moved to scan in another dimension. A reflected confocal spectrum is measured to provide an image of the region.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT