Patent ID: 7896495

Claim:
An endothelium reflection microscope apparatus having an optical head which includes an illuminating system for obliquely illuminating, along a side projection axis through a slit, an eyeball surface of a patient's eye; an eye-front observation optical system along a central channel in which alignment-use indicator light for positional adjustment of the imaging optical center is projected generally toward the eye and the resulting reflected light spot is received and imaged by a camera comprising a digital optical sensor; and an enlarged-imaging optical system arranged along a side reflection axis for enlarged observation or photographing of the subject part by the digital camera based on slit illuminating light with which the eyeball surface has been illuminated; the apparatus further comprising a drive for moving the optical head along three Cartesian directions comprising an advancement direction (Z-) generally parallel to the central channel and transverse alignment directions (X-, Y-), and a CPU controller for automatically controlling the drive, the illuminating system, and the eye-front optical system; the CPU controller including a control unit operated by endothelium image acquisition procedure software.