[Histonet] RE: whole slide scanners

Tue Aug 5 13:21:00 CDT 2014

We are a research based histology lab so we use scanning for several reasons:

1.  We scan slides for clients so they can review their images remotely and  capture snapshot images, annotate, etc- study sizes may range from 10 to 100's of slides
2.  We scan all of our slides for IHC protocol development - our clients that request us to develop IHC staining protocols we scan slides so they can also view the slides and track our progress, plus this creates a great way for us to review the results too, we can easily determine the correct dilution by viewing multiple dilutions at the same time.
3.  We scan all of our stained slides from the control blocks and these are linked to our control block database so anyone can view the scanned slide to see if the controls are working properly.
4.  We have studies that require image analysis so all of the slides are scanned and then analyzed via a custom algorithm that will generate the data required for a particular study design.
5.  We scan all of our IHC control slides so we can tract staining consistency 

These are just a few of the applications that we use WSI for.

Liz

Elizabeth A. Chlipala, BS, HTL(ASCP)QIHC
Premier Laboratory, LLC
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From: Gudrun Lang [mailto:gu.lang <@t> gmx.at] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 11:13 AM
To: Elizabeth Chlipala
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Subject: AW: [Histonet] RE: whole slide scanners

Hi,
for which purpose do you use the high troughput scanner. Archive or diagnostics?
Gudrun

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Betreff: [Histonet] RE: whole slide scanners

I agree with James the type of scanner you need will be dependent upon your use cases and workload.  We have an Aperio ScanScope XT which is an 120 slide scanner and that works well for us.

I'm going to make a shameless plug for a workshop that myself, Bill DeSalvo and Jesus Ellin will be giving at the annual meeting in Austin this year, it's called Digital Pathology for the Histotech - A Guide to Implementation it's an all day workshop that is on Saturday the 23rd and it will cover all aspects of how to select a scanner, how to implement scanning, etc.  It will be very valuable to histotechs that are already scanning and also techs that are new to the scanning process.

Liz

Elizabeth A. Chlipala, BS, HTL(ASCP)QIHC Premier Laboratory, LLC PO Box
18592 Boulder, CO 80308
(303) 682-3949 office
(303) 682-9060 fax
(303) 881-0763 cell
liz <@t> premierlab.com
www.premierlab.com

March 10, 2014 is Histotechnology Professionals Day

Ship to Address:

Premier Laboratory, LLC
1567 Skyway Drive, Unit E
Longmont, CO 80504

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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of James Watson
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To: 'Kalleberg, Kristopher'; histonet-request <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu;
histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] RE: whole slide scanners

The scanner you get depends on your usage and volume.  Three that I recommend are for high volume.

Aperio,		
Good image quality,  if you need to link to study metadata Spectrum software is great.  Recommend for chromogen. Separate scanner for fluorescence, fluorescent scanner  only holds 5 slides at a time.  

Hamamatsu Nanozoomer,	
What we use,  we do high volume chromogen and fluorescence,  excellent for both.  Our NanoZoomer holds 210 slides for a chromogen run.  Can load up about 100 fluorescent slides per night,  auto focus works well.  

Philips,	
Chromogen only,  very fast scanning with high quality scans.  60 slides per hour.

There are many others on the market for smaller workloads.

James Watson HT  ASCP
GNF  Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation Scientific Technical Leader II, Histology Tel    858-332-4647 Fax   858-812-1915 jwatson <@t> gnf.org

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Subject: [Histonet] whole slide scanners

Hello All,

I am looking into the purchase of a whole slide scanner.  If anyone could supply some recommendations it would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Kris
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