Patent ID: 6300639
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A process for the configuration of a confocal laser microscope before or during the examination of a specimen which contains at least one fluorescent dye or on which at least one fluorescent dye has been applied, comprising the steps of:selecting a laser spectrum corresponding to the excitation wavelength of the respective fluorescent dye and directing it onto the specimen;selecting optical filters whose transmission spectra correspond to the emission wavelength of the fluorescent dye for swiveling into the microscope beam path;recording the excitation wavelengths and the emission wavelengths of different fluorescent dyes, the adjustable laser spectra and the adjustable filter-transmission spectra in separate data records and storing them in a data storage; anddetermining presets for the configuration of the microscope from a computational linking of the data records.