Patent ID: 7381975

Claim:
A microscope adapted to produce magnified images of a sample, where the sample defines a sample plane, the microscope comprising: an observing component for generating rasterized image data from the sample in a first direction, where the first direction lies entirely within in the sample plane and the observing component is disposed in a z direction from the sample plane, a moving component for generating relative movement in a second direction between the sample and the observing component, where the second direction is disposed entirely within the sample plane and is substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a sensor for independently generating position data directly from the sample, where the position data includes a position of the sample in the second direction, and a controller adapted to receive the image data from the observing component and the position data from the sensor, and apply the position data for the sample in the second direction to the rasterized image data to correct relations in the second direction of the image data.