Patent ID: 8898809

Claim:
A method for the combined analysis of a sample with objects to be analyzed, in particular a sample with biological objects, comprising the steps of: obtaining measurement results for one or more of the objects to be analyzed in the sample, by analyzing the one or more objects to be analyzed by an imaging method of measurement, determining at least one first optical property of the one or more objects to be analyzed from the measurement results, obtaining probe-microscopic measurement results for the one or more objects to be analyzed, by analyzing the one or more objects to be analyzed by a probe-microscopic method of measurement, determining at least one first mechanical property of the one or more objects to be analyzed from the probe-microscopic measurement results, and assigning the at least one first optical property and the at least one first mechanical property to one another after optional prior intermediate processing and at least one of the following: 1) deriving information on sample properties of the sample from the imaging measurement results, and subsequently taking and using the information on sample properties when carrying out the probe-microscopic method of measurement; and 2) deriving information from the probe-microscopic measurement results and subsequently using the information obtained from said step of deriving information from the probe-measurement results when carrying out the imaging method of measurement.