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A light field microscope incorporating a lenslet array at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens. The microscope objective lens may be supplemented with an array of low power lenslets which may be located at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens, and which slightly modify the obje

A light field microscope incorporating a lenslet array at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens. The microscope objective lens may be supplemented with an array of low power lenslets which may be located at or near the rear aperture of the objective lens, and which slightly modify the objective lens. The result is a new type of objective lens, or an addition to existing objective lenses. The lenslet array may include, for example, 9 to 100 lenslets (small, low-power lenses with long focal lengths) that generate a corresponding number of real images. Each lenslet creates a real image on the image plane, and each image corresponds to a different viewpoint or direction of the specimen. Angular information is recorded in relations or differences among the captured real images. To retrieve this angular information, one or more of various dense correspondence techniques may be used.

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What is claimed is: 1. A light field microscope, comprising:an objective lens;a sensor at an image plane of the light field microscope configured to capture images projected onto the sensor; anda lenslet array located at or near a rear aperture of the objective lens, wherein the lenslet array compri

What is claimed is: 1. A light field microscope, comprising:an objective lens;a sensor at an image plane of the light field microscope configured to capture images projected onto the sensor; anda lenslet array located at or near a rear aperture of the objective lens, wherein the lenslet array comprises a plurality of lenslets;wherein each lenslet of the plurality of lenslets is configured to project a separate real image of a specimen under the objective lens onto a separate location on the sensor so that the plurality of lenslets is configured to project a plurality of separate real images of the specimen under the objective lens onto a plurality of separate locations on the sensor, wherein each separate real image corresponds to a different view of the specimen under the objective lens so that the plurality of separate real images correspond to different views of the specimen under the objective lens, and wherein angular information for an image of the specimen is recorded in differences among the plurality of separate real images.