Patent ID: 8606343
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A system for recording on a recording medium the location of one or more tissue sections imaged by a microscope, said system comprising: a microscope for imaging in-vivo tissue of a body of a patient to provide one or more images of one or more tissue sections; means for moving a part of said microscope and the body of the patient with respect to each other in one or more directions during imaging to view different parts of the in-vivo tissue of the patient with said microscope; and means for applying force to the body of the patient to stabilize the tissue when imaged by said microscope, and said means for applying force having an opening that restricts the extent of the stabilized tissue presentable to the microscope for imaging to that within said opening; means, coupled to said moving means, for recording on a recording medium information associated with one or more locations of the in-vivo tissue of the patient of said one or more images of tissue sections.