1. An apparatus for capturing digitized images of internal structures of specimens, comprising: a lapping platen, wherein the lapping platen is capable of removing one or more layers of a specimen from a surface of the specimen to be imaged when in contact with the surface of the specimen to be imaged; an image capture device capable of providing digitized images of the surface of the specimen to be imaged in an image plane; and a specimen mount, wherein the specimen mount is capable of maintaining the surface of the specimen to be imaged in contact with the lapping platen and in the image plane, wherein the lapping platen comprises embedded filters opaque to infrared frequency light at an abrading plane.