Patent ID: 11874451
Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A method for imaging a sample, the method comprising:
illuminating a sample with oblique light using a first objective positioned adjacent to the sample;
capturing light from the sample also using the first objective; and
rotating the image plane of the captured light using a remote imaging module that is positioned remotely from the first objective and the sample, the remote imaging module comprising a second objective and a third objective that are positioned adjacent to each other, the second objective being an air objective exposed to ambient air and the third objective being a liquid-immersion objective immersed in a liquid, such that the second and third objectives are mismatched with each other in that they are surrounded by or immersed in different media having different indices of refraction.