Patent ID: 9709791
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G02B

Claim:
1. A method for imaging tissue, comprising: causing a macroscopic image of a tissue surface captured by a macroscopic imager to be displayed on a visual display; receiving a user-defined selection of at least one portion of the macroscopic image; causing, after receiving the user-defined selection of the at least one portion of the macroscopic image, a graphical input to be displayed on the visual display; for each user-defined selected portion of the macroscopic image, using user-controllable parameters specified within the graphical input to cause a plurality of confocal images to be captured by a confocal imager at different depths in a corresponding portion of the tissue and to be displayed on the visual display; receiving a user-defined selection, from among the plurality of confocal images, of at least one target depth image having a particular depth associated therewith; and for each user-defined selected target depth image, instructing the confocal imager to capture a plurality of additional images at neighboring locations over a selected region of the tissue and at a common depth with the particular depth associated with the user-defined selected target depth image.