PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a corneal endothelial cell photographing apparatus capable of reliably obtaining an endothelial cell image of an examinees eye.SOLUTION: The apparatus includes: a main unit including an illumination optical system for irradiating illumination light from an illumination light source to a cornea of the examinees eye from an oblique direction and an imaging optical system for obtaining a corneal endothelial cell image by receiving reflection light from the cornea including corneal endothelial cells by a first imaging element an anterior segment observation optical system including a second imaging element different from the first imaging element, the anterior segment observation optical system being adapted to pick up an anterior segment image of the examinees eye by the second imaging element to observe the anterior segment image from front a controller adapted to turn on the illumination light source and obtain a plurality of picked-up images output from the first imaging element and an alignment detecting unit adapted to detect an alignment state of the main unit with respect to the examinees eye based on a picked-up image output from the second imaging element during obtaining of the picked-up images by the controller.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】 被検者眼の内皮細胞像を確実に取得できる。【解決手段】 照明光源からの照明光を被検者眼角膜に向けて斜めから照射する照明光学系、角膜内皮細胞を含む前記角膜からの反射光を第1撮像素子により受光して角膜内皮細胞画像を取得する撮像光学系、を備える装置本体と、前記第1撮像素子とは異なる第2撮像素子を有し、被検者眼の前眼部像を前記第2撮像素子により撮像して前眼部像を正面から観察する前眼部観察光学系と、前記照明光源を点灯させ、前記第1撮像素子から出力される撮像画像を複数取得する制御手段と、前記制御手段による撮像画像の取得中において、前記第2撮像素子から出力される撮像画像に基づいて被検者眼に対する前記装置本体のアライメント状態を検出するアライメント検出手段と、を備える。【選択図】 図2
