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Confocal multipoint scanning microscopes (1) comprising a multi-beam light source (2), confocal detectors (10) a beam splitter (4) for coupling the illuminating beam path (B) and the detecting beam path (D) into a common beam path (C), and an adjustable deflection unit (5) and a microscope lens (8) have the disadvantage that the properties of the image field cannot be modified in the same way as for a single-point scanning microscope by appropriate activation of the deflection unit, without the relative position of the points changing in relation to one another. The invention proposes solving this problem by having a means (7) for the manipulation of a spatial position of the partial beams or for the manipulation of a phase position of the partial beams relative to one another arranged in the common beam (C) between the main beam splitter (4) and the deflection unit (5). In this way, it is possible to vary image field characteristics without changing the relative position of the points in relation to one another. Confocal microscopy.

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