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Method and apparatus for acquiring and reconstructing magnified specimen images from a computer-controlled microscope

  • US 6,404,906 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2000
  • Issued: 06/11/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for viewing biological specimens by an image analysis system having a computer-controlled, automated microscope comprising the following steps:

  • placing a biological specimen in a microscope at a first location for viewing at a remote location;

    connecting a computer terminal at a remote location to an Internet or Intranet transmission channel for operation of the image analysis system and microscope at the first location;

    generating and displaying to the viewer at the remote location a low magnification, composite image formed of a plurality of adjacent, registered fields of view having image point addresses coordinating areas of interest within the biological specimen at the microscope;

    the remote observer viewing the low magnification composite image and selecting therefrom a point of interest to be viewed at a higher magnification at the remote location;

    sending signals from the remote computer terminal over the transmission channel to control and to operate the image analysis system and microscope at the first location to acquire at least one high magnification, digitized field of view image at the addressed selected point of interest;

    transmitting the at least one, high magnification digitized image over the Internet or Intranet transmission channel from the first location to the remote location; and

    displaying at the remote location both the composite low magnification image and the high magnification image of the selected at least one high magnification field of view image of the addressed point of interest.

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