Gravitational microlensing is one of a handful of tools with which to study
stellar remnants, and the way to probe inactive stellar mass black holes.
Unfortunately, it suffers from the considerable limitation of a near
complete degeneracy between many of the lens and source parameters. Imaging
microlensing events would provide a means to break this degeneracy
directly, enabling the full reconstruction of the lens parameters. This can
be accomplished in practice using the existing optical
microlensing surveys to long-duration events involving radio bright stars
(e.g. Mira variables) and triggering follow up VLBA. In practice, an
optical/infrared microlensing survey of Galactic bulge and disk comparable
to existing efforts is expected to result in black hole detection at a rate
of 1.3 per year. Future radio microlensing surveys can push this rate to 10
detections per year, hence doubling the number of confirmed stellar holes
in a couple years. I will describe how these rate estimates are obtained
and what capabilities are required to achieve them