Patent ID: 8693091

Claim:
A tomographic optical microscope system for reconstructing an image of an object, the system comprising: a system optical axis and at least one of a slit or an edge for creating a light beam profile having a diffraction image, an optics for directing the light beam profile to the object, a moving means for implementing a scanning of the object with the light beam profile such that the diffraction image of the light beam profile illuminates the object for scanning, and the light beam profile moves by the moving means transversally to the system optical axis, at least one of a prism or a mirror for rotating the light beam profile with respect to the object, and for changing between a plurality of scanning directions, a first photodetector for measuring an intensity of light passing through or reflected by the object as a function of a displacement of the light beam profile in order to generate a projection of the object for each scanning direction, and a computer configured to tomographically reconstruct the image of the object from a plurality of the projections.