Virtual Microscopy Made Real

Olympus has introduced its cuttingedge dotSlide 2.1 virtual microscopy system, offering advanced functionality with outstanding image quality.

The Olympus dotSlide 2.1 system is based on the upright BX51 microscope, which ensures an outstanding optical performance. Furthermore, the peltier cooled dotSlide camera ensures high resolutions with fast frame rates and high sensitivity. In combination with a PC-based workstation, slides can be scanned and uploaded with great ease.

This easy-to-use system provides superior functionality, usability and performance through the incorporation of an intuitive Scan Wizard, which guides the user step-by-step through the virtual slide acquisition process.

The standard dotSlide 2.1 MD (manual) system is suitable for fluorescent samples and allows slides and any meta-data to be manually loaded. The dotSlide 2.1 SL (slide loader) system is fitted with a slide loader, which holds up to 50 slides and is integrated with a barcode reader for full traceability and hands-off scanning, for the quick and easy archiving of slides. The dotSlide TMA is now a complete system, incorporating a tissue microarray (TMA) module with a new client server database Net Image Server (NIS) SQL.

This combination enables the user to acquire small tissue cores as single images, and upload them together with the relevant metadata and TMA slide overview to the NIS SQL database. This allows users to perform effortless analysis of the TMA and meta-data, and select individual cores from the overview TMA slide image for analysis.

Multiple large specimens can be scanned in up to 15 horizontal or Z-planes. The dotSlide autofocus function offers outstanding autofocus capabilities. Focus points can also be manually set to achieve superior results for difficult samples. In addition the extended focal imaging feature (EFI) automatically produces extremely sharp and focused images.