Patent ID: 8957957
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A cell observation apparatus comprising: an illumination optical system that illuminates a cell group with illuminating light; an illumination-area adjusting portion that adjusts an illumination area of the illuminating light by using the illumination optical system; an image generating portion that generates an image of the cell group illuminated by the illumination optical system; a cell-data extracting portion that extracts data showing characteristics of each cell from the image of the cell group generated by the image generating portion; a cell-area extracting portion that extracts an area of each cell associated with the data of each cell extracted by the cell-data extracting portion; an arithmetic portion that performs statistical processing on the data of each cell extracted by the cell-data extracting portion so as to plot the data of each cell on a scattergram, and that displays the scattergram, wherein the data of each cell plotted on the scattergram includes at least one of an area, a maximum intensity, a minimum intensity, and a circularity of each cell; a cell-of-interest selecting portion that selects a cell of interest from the displayed scattergram based on user input; and a control unit that operates the illumination-area adjusting portion to illuminate only a cell area corresponding to the cell of interest selected by the cell-of-interest selecting portion with the illuminating light.