Patent Document ID: 8995733
Application ID: 13266552
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for diagnosing biology, histology, and pathology of an object, the method comprising the acts of: providing the object comprising biological material and including a plurality of adjacent layers and a feature of interest extending through the plurality of adjacent layers; providing an image of a slice of a first of the plurality of the adjacent layers cut from the object; generating an image of a slice of a second of the plurality of adjacent layers cut from the object, a delay between cutting the slices of the first and second adjacent layers of the plurality of adjacent layers is selected from any of hours, days, weeks, months, years; determining a region of interest in the image of the slice of the second layer based on a region of interest in the image of the slice of the first layer; determining a region of interest in the slice of the second layer based on the region of interest in the image of the slice of the second layer; and extracting material from the region of interest in the slice of the second layer.