[Histonet] RE: Whole slide scanners, any reviews..?

[Elizabeth Chlipala]

Jamie

You can go to the DPA website to get a bit more information on scanners https://digitalpathologyassociation.org/   , there are some white papers up that discuss some different topics and I think the website for http://digitalpathologyconsultants.com/DPCblog/about/   Amanda works for Visopharm which is a software provider but she also has a lot of information on her site.  Keith Kaplans site also has a lot of information - http://tissuepathology.com/

There are other scanners that I would considers - Phillips, Hamamatsu, etc.  you should look at those too.  I know that Hamamatsu also scans fluorescent but not sure about Phillips or Ventana.

Leica scanners use Slide Path for their database, I'm not sure what the others use for their database.  We have an Aperio ScanScope XT but it only scans brightfield.  Some companies that sell scanners also have analysis tool boxes and databases that you can purchase with the scanner and some companies only sell the scanner and you will have to figure out what you are going to do for your database, storage and analysis.  If you are looking at analysis and if you are in the clinical setting I would definitely pick a company that has had some of their software 510K cleared for specific analysis (ER/PR, Her2, etc)  that will help your internal validation process.

Good Luck

Liz

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Subject: [Histonet] Whole slide scanners, any reviews..?

HI All,
             Our Department is reviewing whole slide scanners for possible purchase soon We are looking at systems that do both Bright field and Fluorescence and I was wondering if anyone out in histoland is using the Leica (Ariol),Zeiss (axioscan Z1) or the Perkin Elmer's (Vectra) scanners. I would love to hear from you regarding your thoughts about, image quality, scanner speed, cost, image databases etc.
We hope to use this for telepathology as well as image analysis, so any thoughts would be great..

Thanks,


Jamie Erickson
Scientist II
HTL (ASCP),MS

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