Slide Scanner Microscopes: Omni Slide Scanner (414)
Upright bright-field & fluorescence slide scanner. Ideal for imaging large numbers of tissue sections at high-resolution.
Instrument:
Metafer VSlide Scanner by MetaSystems using Zeiss Axio Imager Z2.
Company website: http://www.metasystems-international.com/metafer/vslide
Features Include:
- Fully motorised X-Y-Z stage
- Z-stacks
- Tiled imaging
- Automated image capture experiments. Locates tissue with 2.5x objective, determines area to be scanned autonomously and generates focus map. Manual placement of focus points is not necessary.
- Automated robotic arm for loading slides – up to 80 slides per run.
Objectives:
Air
- 2.5x 0.75 NA / 9.5mm,
- 10x 0.45NA / 2mm,
- 20x 0.8NA / 0.55mm,
- 40x 0.75NA / 0.71mm
Images produced by this scanner are full-resolution and uncompressed.
Please see the example movies and images below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOS-m2N6tRo&feature=autoplay&list=PLA1C3C347B467C3E6