Patent ID: 8189937
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A line-scanning confocal microscope apparatus, comprising: an illuminating optical system which illuminates a specimen plane of a specimen by a line-shaped illumination area; an image-forming optical system which forms an image of light emitted from said specimen plane; a two-dimensional light detector which is placed at a conjugate plane of said specimen plane and which detects said image formed by the image-forming optical system, the two-dimensional light detector acquiring, at each of a plurality of times, a pixel signal of a specific line of pixels that is in a conjugate relationship with the line-shaped illumination area and a pixel signal of at least one line of pixels peripheral to the specific line of pixels, positions of the line-shaped illumination area on the specimen plane at different ones of the plurality of times being different from each other; a scanning unit which moves said line-shaped illumination area in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the line-shaped illuminating area on said specimen plane; and a correcting unit which corrects for crosstalk in the pixel signal of the specific line of pixels acquired by said two-dimensional light detector at one of said plurality of times based on the pixel signal of the at least one line of pixels peripheral to the specific line of pixels acquired by said two-dimensional light detector at the same one of said plurality of times.