Patent ID: 7613571

Claim:
A method for creating a multidimensional morphological reconstruction of biological tissue data characterizing biological tissue comprising the steps of: cutting histologically thin sections of said biological tissue to produce first and second sets of alternating serial sections of said biological tissue; mapping image data obtained from the first set of alternating serial sections onto a tissue space coordinate system to construct a multidimensional morphological tissue space matrix of image data of the first set of alternating serial sections; unattendedly micro dissecting each serial section in the second set of alternating serial sections into a set of micro dissected section samples; assigning a unique code to each micro dissected section sample micro dissected from the second set of alternating serial sections to form a set of coded micro dissected section samples, with each unique code indicating tissue space coordinates of each coded micro dissected section sample in the morphological tissue space matrix; analyzing each coded micro dissected section sample to obtain biological data providing information on a plurality of biological characteristics of the coded micro dissected section sample; and spatially mapping the biological data characterizing each coded micro dissected section sample, micro dissected from the second set of alternating serial sections, onto the multidimensional morphological tissue space matrix, constructed from the first set of alternating serial sections and superimposing the biological data of the coded micro dissected section sample upon volume image data indicated by the code assigned to the coded micro dissected section sample.