Patent ID: 6999608

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an examination area image obtaining means having an illuminating light emitting means for projecting an illuminating light onto a target subject, an image obtaining means for obtaining an image formed of the reflected light which is reflected from the target subject upon the irradiation thereof with the illuminating light emitted from said illuminating light emitting means and which has passed through an image obtaining lens, an examination area image display means for displaying an examination area image based on said image obtained by said image obtaining means, and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) means for scanning a predetermined scanning area within the target subject with a signal light, which is a low coherence light, and obtaining an optical tomographic image of the scanned area using the interference caused between the reflected light reflected from a predetermined depth of said scanning area upon the scanning thereof with the signal light, and a reference-light which has a slight frequency difference with respect to the signal light, wherein the OCT means performs the scanning of the examination area by passing the signal light through the image obtaining lens.