Remote viewing of scanned microscopy images

Microscopy slide scanners are useful for automating image acquisition and for archiving slides to examine more closely at a later time. Now there’s a new option for slide scanning, the Olympus VS110 virtual slide scanning system. The system, which is now available in the US, can scan from one to 100 slides. Remote users can view and navigate high-resolution images of entire slides or areas of slides on a network or web browser, and they can add linked annotations, markers, dictation, and files.

The system comes standard with Olympus Plan Apo 2x, 10x, 20x and 40x objectives, and optional 60x and 100x Plan Apo oil objectives are available. Multiple Z focal planes can be captured and displayed using the Virtual-Z™ feature. The system uses a Peltier-cooled 1376 x 1032 pixel camera with low background noise, fast frame rates, high sensitivity, excellent signal-to-noise ratio, and a broad dynamic range. In addition to single-specimen brightfield microscopy imaging, the system can handle tissue microarrays (TMAs).

Three models are available:
• VS110-1: Each slide is loaded manually and a virtual file is created automatically based on the user’s preferences
• VS110-5: Automated scanning of up to five slides.
• VS110-L: Has a 100-slide robotic loader for automated scanning and slides can be selected sequentially, at random, or via the software.

Find more information here.

Fluorescence slide scanning

In today's digital world, microscope slide scanners are a good way to digitize slides so that they're available for later study. Take this one step further by adding fluorescence imaging with the ScanScope FL digital slide scanner introduced by Aperio Technologies at the 100th annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR). The fluorescence capability makes the 5-slide system useful for quantitative analysis of tissues and tissue microarrays with multiple biomarkers, and archiving the scanner's high-resolution multi-color whole-slide images means you don't have to worry about the fluorescence fading over time. 

The scanner features a 10-bit monochrome camera, autoexposure, and autofocus. Digital slide images can be acquired from up to four color channels in the default configuration and from more channels by adding additional filter cubes. View the images as individual color channels or as dynamic layers. More info here.