Patent ID: 9372334
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: G01N,G02B

Claim Text:
1. A microscope for fluorescence imaging microscopy, in particular for wide-field fluorescence microscopy, comprising: a pulsed light source sending excitation light via an objective to a sample; an imaging detector receiving fluorescent light and scattered or reflected light from the sample via the objective; and a synchronization unit, controllable by a computer, providing gating of the imaging detector in combination with the pulsed light source to synchronize the pulsed light source and the imaging detector to (1) suppress components of the scattered or fluorescent light, (2) allow evaluation of suitable fluorescence components of the fluorescent light, and (3) reject unsuitable fluorescence components of the fluorescent light, wherein the fluorescence components comprise photons and wherein a timestamp representing a time of arrival of each photon, or a record of a time of arrival of each signal waveform of an image pixel, is assigned to each photon or image pixel so as to decide in a downstream data processing unit whether each photon or image pixel is suitable for evaluation.