Patent ID: 8368017

Claim:
A method for operating a measurement system with a scanning probe microscope, particularly an atomic force microscope wherein: an optical image of a measurement section of a measurement sample to be examined is recorded by an optical recording device during the operation of the measurement system with the scanning probe microscope; the optical image is transformed according to a previously determined coordinate transformation, which is an assignment between a coordinate system of the optical image and a coordinate system of a space covered by movement positions of a measurement probe and a measurement sample, wherein the optical image is transformed during the operation of the measurement system with the scanning probe microscope; the transformed optical image is displayed on a display apparatus during the operation of the measurement system with the scanning probe microscope; a selection of a position in the transformed optical image is detected; and for a scanning probe measurement, the measurement probe that is configured for the scanning probe measurement is moved, by means of a movement apparatus that moves the measurement probe and the measurement sample relative to one another, to a measurement position which is comprised in the movement positions and assigned to the selected position in the transformed optical image according to the coordinate transformation by controlling the movement apparatus in accordance with the coordinate transformation.