Abstract: A microscope having a night vision apparatus, which apparatus can be impinged upon by beam paths proceeding from a specimen or object to be observed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an illumination system for an ophthalmic surgical microscope (10), including a light source (32) for emitting light along an illumination beam path (50) directed toward an eye (12) of a patient, and a measuring device (54, 62) for measuring a parameter of the patient's eye (12). The illumination system further includes an adjustable optical element (48) which allows the orientation of the illumination beam path (50) to be adjusted relative to an observation beam path (16L) of the surgical microscope (10) so as to obtain a red reflex, and a control device (60) which determines a red-reflex-optimized control parameter based on the measured parameter of the patient's eye (12) and adjusts the optical element (48) according to the red-reflex-optimized control parameter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an Illuminating device for an operating microscope in ophthalmic surgery, having at least one light source (151), at least one lens (152, 155), at least one luminous field diaphragm (153), and at least one optical deflector (156), wherein in order to provide an illumination beam path (119) light from the light source (151) is guided through a main objective (107) which is disposed between the deflector (156) and an eye (180) that is to be observed, and on to the eye that is to be observed, wherein a device (154) that can be introduced into the illumination beam path (119) for acting upon the illumination beam path (119) with a structure that comprises transparent and non-transparent or opaque regions such that this structure can be imaged on or close to the retina (180b) of the eye (180) that is to be observed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microscope apparatus (100) comprising an operating microscope (20), a magnetic resonance or MR apparatus (30), a stand (10) that carries the operating microscope (20) and the MR apparatus (30), at least one detector (14) for determining the spatial position of the MR apparatus (30) relative to the operating microscope (20), a reflecting device (23) for reflecting an image obtained using the MR apparatus (30) into at least one observation beam path of the operating microscope (20), a computer unit (40) which is connected to the at least one detector (14) and is arranged so as to determine the spatial position of the MR apparatus (20) relative to the operating microscope (30), the computer unit (40) being connected to the reflecting device (23) and to the MR apparatus (30) and being arranged so as to provide the image that is to be reflected in for the reflecting device (23) on the basis of the spatial position determined for the MR apparatus (30) relative to the operating

Abstract: The present invention relates to an Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plant, seed, variety, and hybrid. Another aspect of the present invention relates to an Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plant having a mutant allele designated KLEDF which results in an altered flower phenotype. The invention also relates to crossing Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plants containing the KLEDF mutant allele with other Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plants lacking the KLEDF mutant allele to produce intergeneric and interspecific hybrids. This invention further relates to specific lines of Osteospermum varieties exhibiting the altered-flowering phenotype. Furthermore, the invention relates to pollen, seed, and sexual, as well as asexual progeny of such plants with altered flowers. In addition, the invention relates to methods for propagating said plants and to uses of said plants.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to an altered flower shape in plants belonging to the genera Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca, which is induced by a mutant allele, as well as to the method of breeding Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plants having this altered flower shape.

Abstract: An illumination device for a light microscope with an objective, in particular for a stereo-microscope, illuminates an object plane of the light microscope. An illumination beam path of the illumination device is defined by a light source, a field diaphragm, illumination optics with at least one illumination lens, and at least one deflection element. The object plane of the microscope is obliquely illuminated with incident illumination, wherein an axis of the illumination beam path forms an angle ? greater than 0° with an optical axis of the objective.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control unit for an item of medical equipment, particularly a surgical microscope, for controlling equipment functions, comprising a sensor-screen having a sensor-screen surface for displaying image material, the sensor-screen being configured to be operated in contactless manner via a recognition device and to accommodate a sterile transparent control surface in front of the sensor-screen surface.

Abstract: A microscope having a night vision apparatus, which apparatus can be impinged upon by beam paths proceeding from a specimen or object to be observed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an illuminating apparatus for an operating microscope comprising two observation beam paths (152, 154) for a first observer (main surgeon) and two observation beam paths (156, 158) for a second observer (assisting surgeon), comprising an illuminating system (102; 106a, 108a, 172) and deflecting means (118, 120, 170), for deflecting light emanating from the illumination system onto an object (200) that is to be observed, wherein the deflecting device comprises a first deflecting element (118) which is associated with a first observation beam path (152) of the first observer and a first observation beam path (156) of the second observer, and a second deflecting element (120) which is associated with a second observation beam path (154) of the first observer and a second observation beam path (158) of the second observer.

Abstract: An optical device, in particular a microscope (1), that includes a beam path in which is arranged at least one deflection element (5, 6a to 6f) for deflecting the beam path, at least one vibration sensor (34) being arranged in or on the optical device; at least one of the deflection elements (5, 6a to 6f) including a mirror having a controllably deformable mirror surface (50); and a control unit (32) being provided that, as a function of the output signal of the vibration sensor (34), applies control to the at least one deflection element (5, 6a to 6f) in order to adjust the mirror surface (50) in such a way that vibrations of the optical device are compensated for by a correspondingly opposite-phase adjustment of the mirror surface (50).

Abstract: Attachment module for a microscope, having an ophthalmoscopic lens (142; 242; 342) and an inverting device (140; 240; 340) for inverting an image of an object (143; 243; 343) that is to be observed generated by means of the ophthalmoscopic lens, wherein the inverter device comprises at least four deflection surfaces (146a, 146b, 146c; 246a, 246b, 246c; 346a, 346b, 346c, 346d) by means of which observation beam paths (102) which emanate from the object to be observed can be introduced into a main objective (110) of the microscope, at least two deflection surfaces being planar and at least two further deflection surfaces being non-planar, particularly spherical or in the shape of free-form surfaces.

Abstract: A microscope and a method for illuminating an object to be imaged by a microscope are described. The method includes illuminating the object by primary light of a first spectral intensity distribution and by secondary light of a second spectral intensity distribution, the secondary light arising from the scattering of the primary light; measuring the intensity of at least one wavelength of the secondary light; comparing at least one of the measured intensity and a value derived from this measured intensity to a threshold value; and generating a signal indicating a change in the spectral intensity distribution of the secondary light by indicating whether the at least one of the measured intensity and value derived from this measured intensity either exceed or stay below the predefined threshold value.

Abstract: An assistant microscope add-on device for a surgical microscope (1) comprises an objective (22) inclined relative to an object plane (10) with an object field (10?), wherein the objective defines an objective plane (22?) and an objective axis (16?) perpendicular thereto forming an angle ? larger than 0° to the surface normal of the object plane (10). A tube (23) and an eyepiece (24) having an eyepiece lens (27) defining an eyepiece plane (27?) and an eyepiece axis (35) perpendicular thereto. Due to the oblique viewing angle, an intermediate image plane (26) to be imaged by the eyepiece (24) is inclined relative to the objective plane (22?). The resulting aberration is eliminated by the eyepiece axis (35) and the objective axis (16?) forming an angle ? of larger than 0°, wherein the angle ? is so chosen that the eyepiece axis (35) is substantially perpendicular to the intermediate image plane (26). Consequently, the object field (10?) is imaged free of distortion and sharply across the entire image area.

Abstract: Stereomicroscope having a main objective (2) and a zoom system (7) provided downstream of the main objective (2), wherein between the objective (2) and the zoom system (7) is provided a first deflector (30) for deflecting viewing beam pencils emanating from the objective (2) into the zoom system, the zoom system (8) comprising substantially horizontally extending magnification and viewing channels (7a to 7d), wherein the first deflector (30) is of semitransparent construction, while a first illuminating device (50; 60, 65) is provided for illuminating an object that is to be viewed through the first deflector 30 and the main objective 2.

Abstract: A video stereomicroscope includes a main objective (2) having a substantially vertical optical axis (11), a deflecting element (5) provided downstream of the objective (2) to cause light passing through the main objective (2) to be deflected into a substantially horizontal direction, and further includes a zoom system (7) which is disposed downstream of the deflecting element (5) and has at least two substantially horizontally extending observation channels (7c, 7d), a first observation channel (7c) and a second observation channel (7d) of the zoom system (7) being vertically spaced from each other. The video stereomicroscope has at least one optoelectronic image-capturing device (40a-40e) provided downstream of the zoom system (7) for providing a stereoscopic image based on beams of radiation (20c, 20d) passing through the first observation channel (7c) and the second observation channel (7d).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an illuminating apparatus for an operating microscope comprising two observation beam paths (152, 154) for a first observer (main surgeon) and two observation beam paths (156, 158) for a second observer (assisting surgeon), comprising an illuminating system (102; 106a, 108a, 172) and deflecting means (118, 120, 170), for deflecting light emanating from the illumination system onto an object (200) that is to be observed, wherein the deflecting device comprises a first deflecting element (118) which is associated with a first observation beam path (152) of the first observer and a first observation beam path (156) of the second observer, and a second deflecting element (120) which is associated with a second observation beam path (154) of the first observer and a second observation beam path (158) of the second observer.

Abstract: A microscope and a method for illuminating an object to be imaged by a microscope are described. The method includes illuminating the object by primary light of a first spectral intensity distribution and by secondary light of a second spectral intensity distribution, the secondary light arising from the scattering of the primary light; measuring the intensity of at least one wavelength of the secondary light; comparing at least one of the measured intensity and a value derived from this measured intensity to a threshold value; and generating a signal indicating a change in the spectral intensity distribution of the secondary light by indicating whether the at least one of the measured intensity and value derived from this measured intensity either exceed or stay below the predefined threshold value.

Abstract: A method for breeding double flower Calibrachoa sp. plants using controlled crosses of selected parent plants is disclosed. The invention additionally relates to methods for breeding double flower Calibrachoa plants using anther culture and induced mutation techniques. Finally, the invention relates to new Calibrachoa plants produced by the described methods and characterized by their unique double flowers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope (10) having an illumination apparatus (26) having a light source (1) and an optical system. The light source (1) is embodied to output a coherent light beam bundle along a defined illumination beam path (2a), and the optical system in the illumination beam path (2a) encompasses a spatial light modulator (3) for modifying the illuminated field (4). A surgical microscope (10) is preferably equipped with an illumination apparatus (26) of this kind that is arranged adjustably in two directions on the surgical microscope (10).