Patent 9377293 was granted and assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec on June, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Imaging systems are provided allowing examination of different object regions spaced apart in a depth direction by visual microscopy and by optical coherence tomography. An axial field of view and a lateral resolution is varied depending on which object region is examined by the imaging system. The proposed imaging systems are in particular applicable for thorough examination of the human eye.