Slide Scanner for Oil Immersion ­Applications

Purpose-designed for oil immersion applications, the Aperio Scanscope OS from Nikon Instruments creates high-resolution digital slides of blood smears, bone marrow, Gram stain, and other specimens requiring high magnification. An area of 10 x 10 mm is scanned in approximately 20 minutes, creating true-colour digital slides in multiple formats (TIFF, composite web slide). Ideal for haematopathology and microbiology, the high-numerical aperture oil immersion objectives create digital slides with the same detail as conventional glass slides. Unlike glass slides, however, digital slides do not break or degrade, and are easy to store, manage and share. The instrument uses patented linear-array methodology which provides high-quality, high-resolution digital slides and includes Aperios ground-breaking Spectrum software for viewing, editing, data search and digital slide management.