Abstract: The present invention relates to an image stabilization device which is particularly space-efficient and has a quick response time, and which is integrated into an image capture device for an image capture system of a surgical microscope, including a carrier substrate (101, 102) defining a sensor plane, a plurality of optoelectronic image capturing cells (110) arranged, in particular, in a matrix array; and at least one moving means (120) for moving the optoelectronic image capturing cells (110) relative to the carrier substrate (101, 102).

Abstract: A stand (10, 100) for holding a medical device (W1, W2, W3) includes a stand foot (9) and a carrier unit (1) connected to the stand foot rotatably about an axis (S), the medical device being mountable on the carrier unit. The stand also includes a counterweight (W4) to compensate for the torque about the axis produced by the medical device and the carrier unit, a first receiving unit (6, 102) at a first location for receiving at least a portion of the counterweight, and a second receiving unit (7, 104) at a second location for receiving at least another portion of the counterweight. Upon a change in torque about the axis, a proportion of the counterweight received by the first receiving unit is increasable by a compensation value, and that proportion of the counterweight which is received by the second receiving unit is reducible by that compensation value.

Abstract: A flat panel light source (100) for a transillumination device of a microscope comprises a plate-shaped light guide (110) having a lower and an upper boundary surface and at least one lateral surface (113 to 116), and at least one light-emitting means (120, 122) arranged to radiate light (130) into the light guide (110) from at least two different directions, via at least one lateral surface serving as a light entrance surface, such that light propagates in the light guide (110) by total reflection, the total reflection being disrupted in defined fashion by an element (140) abutting against a contact surface at the lower boundary surface of the light guide (110) so an outcoupling of light occurs on the upper boundary surface, the planar area of the contact surface being smaller than that of the lower boundary surface, the element (140) producing a directed reflection of the light (130).

Abstract: A surgical microscope system (100) for ophthalmology, in particular for cataract surgery, is proposed, which comprises an illumination unit (10) and a viewing unit (30), the surgical microscope system (100) being set up to irradiate illumination light (15) of the illumination unit (10) into an eye (50) arranged on the objective side of the surgical microscope, the surgical microscope system (100) comprising a detection unit (20) by means of which a scattering (15?) of the illumination light (15) irradiated into the eye (50) is determinable, in the form of a scattering pattern and/or scattering coefficient, by sensing a portion of the illumination light (15) radiated back by the eye (50).

Abstract: A surgical microscope system (100) for ophthalmology, in particular for cataract surgery, comprising a surgical microscope (10) having an optical viewing unit (13), is proposed, in which an optical coherence tomograph (20) is set up to scan at least a region of a lens (53) of an eye (50) and to generate scan values, and in which a detection unit (30) is set up to generate, on the basis of the scan values, diagnostic data that correspond to light-reflecting structures in the scanned region of the eye (50) and that derive from a plane of the eye (50) that corresponds to an object plane of the surgical microscope (10).

Abstract: The invention relates to a stand, in particular to a stand for a surgical microscope, having a pivotable carrier arm (4) and having a microscope holder (6) pivotable in a plane at the distal end of the carrier arm (4), the angular position (21; 24) of the microscope holder (6) being definable with reference to the carrier arm (4), and having a motorized drive that engages on the one hand on the carrier arm and on the other hand on the microscope holder (6), and in the context of operation defines the angular position (21; 24) in remotely controlled fashion and/or automatically. This construction eliminates complex parallelogram supports and angle transfer elements that link the tilt of the microscope holder (6) depending on the pivot position of the carrier arm (4). The construction thus becomes simpler and lighter, and less dependent on production tolerances.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stand for a surgical microscope (28) having a pivotable carrier arm (4). The latter is modifiable in length as a function of its pivot angle (29). It carries a microscope holder (6), pivotable in at least one plane, at the distal end of carrier arm (4), the angular position (21; 24) of the microscope holder (6) being definable with reference to the carrier arm (4; 34) according to a further development; and a motorized drive, which engages on the one hand on the carrier arm and on the other hand on the microscope holder (6), and in the context of operation defines the angular position (21; 24) in remotely controlled fashion and/or automatically.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microscope (1), preferably a dental microscope, including a microscope body (15) and a stand (2) formed by a plurality of components to provide a supporting function or to enable positioning of the microscope (1) in the room (11), the microscope body (15) and the stand (2) having cavities (16) therein. It is a feature of the present invention that at least one cavity (16) of the microscope body (15) and/or the stand (2) has a light source (17) provided therein whose light (17a, 17b, 17c) can pass outwardly through passage openings (18, 24, 27).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an illumination device for a stereomicroscope, in particular a surgical microscope for eye surgery, having at least one light source (10), a collector lens system (14), an aperture diaphragm (16), a condenser lens system (18), and an objective (22), illumination light being directed from the light source (10) through the collector lens system (14), the aperture diaphragm (16), the condenser lens system (18), and the objective (22) into the object plane (E19), the aperture diaphragm (16) being provided as a double orifice plate or four-orifice plate.

Abstract: A method and device for autofocusing in a microscope (11), wherein two preferably spot-shaped, markers (12) are generated on an object, the spacing (d) of the markers representing an indication of the defocusing of a working plane (9) in the object from the focal plane (10) of the microscope (11). A focus drive (6) displaces the working plane (9) into the focal plane (10) as a function of the marker spacing (d). In order to allow rapid and exact focusing to be performed, a detector (4) acquires an image of the markers (12) generated on the object, an evaluation unit (7a) determines the spacing of the markers (12), and a control unit (7b) adjusts, as a function of the determined marker spacing (d), the speed of the focus drive (6) at which the working plane (9) is displaced into the focal plane (10).

Abstract: A microscope includes a light source including an LED device having a light radiating surface and a light directing element including a larger coupling-out surface. The light directing element is disposed so as to couple in light radiated by the light source and couple out the radiated light from the coupling-out surface. The light directing element is disposed so that the light is radiated out in an angular range of ±10° to ±50° and illuminates an area at 5 meters in an angular range of at least ±5° with intensity fluctuations of less than 50%. A condenser is disposed between the coupling-out surface of the light directing element and the object to be viewed. The condenser has an aperture with an aperture dimension and is disposed such that the aperture is irradiated completely with the light coupled out from the coupling-out surface.

Abstract: A microscope apparatus includes a microscope, a gooseneck holder, and an operating unit configured to control apparatus functions of the microscope apparatus. The operating unit is carried by the gooseneck holder.

Abstract: A mount (100, 200) for holding an electron microscopy sample carrier (310) comprises a base plate (101) having an opening (103) through a middle region thereof and a support surface (107) for the sample carrier (310) extending at least partly around the opening (103), a holding apparatus (104a, 104b) for frictionally engaged holding of the sample carrier (310) on the support surface (107) being provided on the base plate (101), the holding apparatus (104a, 104b) comprising at least two mutually independent clip elements (104a, 104b) that extend from the base plate (101) toward the opening (103) and by means of which edge regions (313a, 313b), spaced apart from one another, of the electron microscopy sample carrier (310) are holdable on the support surface (107). The invention further encompasses a loading apparatus for loading a mount with an electron microscopy sample carrier, and a method for using the loading apparatus.

Abstract: A microscope device (100) includes a surgical microscope (20), a camera (30), connected to the surgical microscope (20), for sensing an object (200) imaged by the surgical microscope, a stand (10) carrying the surgical microscope (20) as well as the camera (30), an operating unit (50), spatially separated from the camera (30), for controlling device functions of the camera (30). The operating unit (30) includes a screen (40) for displaying activatable device functions (51) and a selection and activation means, embodied as an actuatable rotary/push operating means (60), for selecting and activating one of the device functions displayed. The operating unit (50) is set up such that by rotating the rotary/push operating means (60), one (52) of the displayed device functions is selected, and by pushing the rotary/push operating means (60), the selected device function (52) is activated.

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: An operating microscope system (200) for ophthalmology, particularly vitrectomy, is proposed, which comprises an operating microscope (10) with a microscope illumination (15) and a wide-angle device (20) arranged on the objective side in front of the operating microscope (10), the wide-angle device (20) comprising a wide-angle lens (21) arranged on the object side of the wide-angle device (20) and a prism arrangement (22) for righting the image, arranged on the microscope side of the wide-angle lens (21), wherein the wide-angle device (20) comprises an illuminating unit (25) which is arranged so as to illuminate an object (40) arranged in front of the wide-angle lens (21) through the wide-angle lens (21) by means of an illuminating light (29).

Abstract: A flat panel light source (100) for a transillumination device of a microscope comprises a plate-shaped light guide (110) having a lower and an upper boundary surface and at least one lateral surface (113 to 116), and at least one light-emitting means (120, 122) arranged to radiate light (130) into the light guide (110) from at least two different directions, via at least one lateral surface serving as a light entrance surface, such that light propagates in the light guide (110) by total reflection, the total reflection being disrupted in defined fashion by an element (140) abutting against a contact surface at the lower boundary surface of the light guide (110) so an outcoupling of light occurs on the upper boundary surface, the planar area of the contact surface being smaller than that of the lower boundary surface, the element (140) producing a directed reflection of the light (130).

Abstract: A flat panel light source (100) for a transillumination device of a microscope comprises a plate-shaped light guide (110) having a lower and an upper boundary surface, and at least one lateral surface (113 to 116), and having at least one light-emitting means (120, 122) arranged to radiate light into the light guide (110) from at least two different directions, via at least one lateral surface serving as a light entrance surface, such that the light propagates in the light guide (110) as a result of total reflection, the total reflection being disrupted in defined fashion, by an element (140) abutting against a contact surface at the lower boundary surface of the light guide (110), so that an outcoupling of light occurs on the upper boundary surface of the light guide (110), the planar area of the contact surface being smaller than the planar area of the lower boundary surface.