Patent ID: 7221784

Claim:
A method for recording of structures in microscopy, comprising the following steps: a) acquiring an image and identifying a region of interest of a sample within the image and selecting a plane within the sample comprising the region of interest by a user; b) extracting the region of interest by means of image analysis and constructing a list of specimen positions; c) defining a list of possible further specimen positions derived from the list of specimen positions; d) selecting a sub-list of the possible further specimen positions that can be imaged in parallel by a microscope; e) traveling to a microscope position which makes possible acquisition of a scene in which all possible specimen positions of the sub-list are visible; f) performing a data acquisition; g) matching the sub-list of possible specimen positions to the acquired data, eliminating all possible specimen positions not belonging to the specimen, and storing the specimen positions belonging to the specimen; h) expanding the list of possible further specimen positions based on the specimen positions, found in g), belonging to the specimen; i) repeating steps e) through h) as long as the list of possible further specimen positions contains elements; and j) automatically recording the entire marked sample region in three dimensions.