Aspects and implementations for accelerating image acquisition in microscopy

Subject of this thesis is to shorten the execution time of biological experiments which are performed with fluorescence microscopy. Especially when genome-wide screens are run, a huge amount of prepared cells has to be observed. Therefore, speeding up the image acquisition will have the strongest impact on the time which is needed to execute the experiments. The approaches presented here are the elimination of the time-consuming focus search, and two parallel microscope systems, one with standard macro-optics and spectral-parallelization and the other one with highly miniaturized optical components arranged in an array for fast-scanning microscopy