Patent ID: 7495236

Claim:
A method for detection with a scanning microscope, the scanning microscope comprising a scanning device ( 7 ) that guides an illuminating light beam ( 3 ) through a scanning optical system ( 12 ) and a microscope optical system ( 13 ) and over or through a specimen ( 15 ), the specimen ( 15 ) being illuminated in multiple pixels (P x,y ) with the illuminating light beam ( 3 ), and the light emanating from the specimen ( 15 ) being received with a detector unit ( 19 ), and detected signals being generated, wherein the scanning microscope further comprises a digital circuit comprising a summing element and a dividing element, the method comprising the following steps: interrogating a detected signal of the detector unit ( 19 ) by means of said digital circuit; summing the detected signal of the detector unit ( 19 ) by means of said summing element resulting in a sum of detected signals; repeating said steps of interrogating and summing for a number of detected signals, wherein said number of detected signals defines in a cycle; dividing the sum of detected signals by the number of detected signals by means of said dividing element resulting in an average detected signal; interrogating a detected signal of the detector unit ( 19 ) by means of said digital circuit; setting said summing element equal to said detected signal of the detector unit ( 19 ); and, repeating the steps above.