Patent ID: 8366271

Claim:
A surgical microscope assembly including microscope imaging optics having a microscope main objective, the microscope imaging optics defining one or more viewing beam paths that pass from a sample through the microscope main objective and the microscope imaging optics, the assembly comprising: an optical coherence tomography (OCT) unit having an illumination beam and a collection beam; a beamsplitter positioned in the one or more microscope viewing beam paths, the beamsplitter being configured to direct a portion of light from the sample to the microscope imaging optics and to direct another portion of light from the sample to the OCT unit collection beam, the beamsplitter being further configured to direct an illumination beam from the OCT unit to the sample; and a beam forming unit between the OCT unit and the beamsplitter, the beam forming unit configured to form the illumination beam of the OCT unit so as to correspond to a size of the microscope main objective.