The VS110 scanner family
Virtual slide microscopy offers pathologists and researchers the unique potential to acquire complete slides at high magnification and resolution in the shortest possible time. This enables diagnosis, analysis and archiving of samples for discussion both remotely and in online conferences. Three VS110 models are available as part of a comprehensive series of high quality and mutually compatible solutions to match different applications and workloads.
VS110-S1
The VS110-S1 system allows standard slides to be loaded manually along with any associated meta-data. All system components are designed to interact seamlessly, producing a fully automated, high-speed scanning system with excellent flexibility and simple operation. The system is perfectly suited to education, documentation, tele-consultation and tele-conferencing, as well as tissue microarray scanning in pathology, cytology and research.
VS110-S5
The VS110-S5 is designed for medium workload requirements in routine pathology, tele-consultation, tele-conferencing, education and research. It can hold up to five standard slides or two 2’’x3’’ slides simultaneously on the stage for semi-automated batch scanning.
VS110-L100
The VS110-L100 is engineered for high workload pathology and research environments. The system features a dependable, robustly designed slide loader containing two racks, each holding 50 slides. This offers users careful and reliable slide handling, as well as fully automated scanning of up to 100 slides. The integrated bar code scanner reads all common 1D and 2D code formats and can be used to automate slide data entry.
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| Hardware |
Microscope |
motorised BX-VS microscope frame |
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Objectives |
PLAPON 2x, UPLSAPO 10, UPLSAPO 20x, UPLSAPO 40x |
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Illumination |
Brightfield with 100 W halogen lamp house |
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Camera |
2/3” CCD camera, 6.45 μm x 6.45 μm pixel size, high sensitivity, high resolution, Peltier cooled, dynamic range of 14 bit |
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Stage |
motorised x/y-stage with stage insert for glass slides
VS110-S1: slide holder for one 1” x 3” slide
VS110-S5: slide holder for five 1’’ x 3’’ slides or
for two 2’’ x 3’’ slides
VS110-L100: slide holder for one 3''x1'' slide |
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Slide loader |
VS110-L100 with fully automated slide loader for 100 slides 3’’ x 1’’, with integrated bar code scanner to read 1D or 2D bar code formats: WPC (JAN/EAN/UPC-A/UPC-E), NW-7, ITF, Industrial 2of5, Code39, Code93, Code128,RSS-14, RSSLimited, RSSExpanded, QRCode, DataMatrix (ECC200), MicroQR, PDF417 |
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Workstation* |
Dual XEeON™ technology and 500 GB data storage capacity,network interface 100/1,000 Mbit/s Eethernet 4 GB RAM |
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Monitor* |
High-resolution 24'' TFT monitor |
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Options |
Other objectives as high-resolution objectives, e.g. UPLSAPO60xO or UPLSAPO100xO, for oil scanning can be adopted**
0.63x camera adaptor can be adopted to increase scanning speed |
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Operating environment |
Temperature: 15 - 28°C, Humidity: 30 - 80% (no condensation) |
| Resolution |
High-resolution scanning (standard 1x camera adapter) |
0.32 μm/pixel (20x/NA 0.75)and 0.16 μm/pixel (40x/NA 0.9) |
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Fast scanning (0.63x camera adapter option) |
0.51μm/pixel (20x/NA 0.75)and 0.26 μm/pixel (40x/NA 0.9) |
| Scanning Speed (10 x 10 mm sample area / 20x objective) |
High-resolution scanning |
< 3 min |
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Fast scanning mode (option) |
< 2 min |
| Image Acquisition |
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Acquisition scanning wizard
Automatic sample and tissue finding
Autofocus routines
Multi layer scanning: multiple scans in one image
Seamless stitching
Virtual Z-Acquisition
Single button for automatic scanning of up to
100 slides (with VS110-L100)
Reviewed batch scan |
| Software Functions |
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View images locally, zoom, crop and rotate images
Compress images and save images in different file
formats
Insert text annotations and drawings; create views of
regions of interest, record audio annotations(sound
card, microphone and speakers required) |
| Analysis |
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Integrated measurement functions: distances,
areas, circumferences, point count, export results
to Microsoft Excel
Analysis with software packages, e.g. phase
analysis to measure shares of tissue types, particle
analysis to identify content of tumour cells. |
| Software Options |
Net Image Server SQL |
Image management and database platform, enables convenient and secure management of virtual slides, amnagement of user access to images and remote access to digital slides with VS110 software, OlyVIA viewer or web browser. The Net Image server SQL includes a Conferencing application for 5 clients. |
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Conferencing |
Server application software to enable conferences for more than 5 participants, for simultaneous and synchronised viewing of virtual slides, conference access control and user management, minute taking tool, chat function |
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Consultation |
Server application software to enable one-to-one remote consultations. |
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Tisssue Micro Array scanning |
Software module for VS110 systems to acquire individual images of TMA cores |
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Jpeg2000 convert |
File format converter for VS110 software to convert .vsi images to jpeg2000. |
*Specifications may change without notice
**Oil objectives cannot be used with VS110-L100
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Archiving rare and valuable
