[Histonet] Sakura SmartSection

[Morken, Timothy]

Yes, Not to be confused with the AutoSection, which is essential a self-aligning microtome

The SmartSection uses a 5-axis robot (think of one of those robotic arms)  to move blocks and slides around a station for sectioning. It picks a block from a rack and places the block in a holder to do  the sectioning, mounts the sections on slides and puts in rack. Can detect tissue in the block, face correctly to full face, check for holes in the section (all imaging) and do multiple sections per slide, do levels at programmed depths, etc.

I guess there is not anything online about it.  Sakura demoed it at NSH last year to select customers, and not at the general trade show.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Willis, Donna G. [mailto:Donna.Willis at baylorhealth.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 1:47 PM
To: 'Cooper, Brian'; Morken, Timothy; histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: Sakura SmartSection

Brian,
I think the unit that Tim is talking about is something different.  His unit has not need for a tech to pick up sections.  The sections are placed on the slide by the robot.  

We are currently demoing the new Sakura Tissue Tek Auto Section Microtome that does not use a robot.  I will have to say that if it is the same unit that you looked at years ago, they have worked out the bugs.  It is a really nice unit.  I technicians do not want the unit to leave when the demo is complete.

Donna Willis, HT/HTL(ASCP)
Anatomic Pathology Manager

Baylor University Medical Center
3500 Gaston Ave|Dallas, Texas  75246
214-820-2465 office|214-725-6184 mobile
BaylorScottandWhite.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Cooper, Brian [mailto:bcooper at chla.usc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 3:00 PM
To: Morken, Timothy; histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Sakura SmartSection

I went to Sakura to see that thing on a demo a few years back, and it was . . . scary!  The sales reps couldn't get it calibrated right, and it ripped tissue out of the blocks while it was trimming on a few occasions. Not one of us in the room (pretty much all experienced bench histotechs) could collect ribbons, though I suspect this could have been a learning curve type thing.  Aside from that, I will say that they had the ability to realign blocks pretty well perfected, and I was impressed by that.  

I went back to Sakura about a year later for something else, and our rep was still shaking her head about how bad that demo experience went!   Sounds like they may have worked out the kinks eh?    

Thanks, 

Brian D. Cooper, HT (ASCP)CM | Histology Supervisor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Children's Hospital Los Angeles
4650 Sunset Blvd MS#43- Los Angeles, CA 90027
Ph: 323.361.3357
bcooper at chla.usc.edu 


-----Original Message-----
From: Morken, Timothy [mailto:Timothy.Morken at ucsf.edu]
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 12:26 PM
To: Histonet
Subject: [Histonet] Sakura SmartSection

Has anyone done any work with the Sakura SmartSection robot? We've had some blocks cut on it and have had good initial results. This could be a game-changer for histology staffing.


Tim Morken
Pathology Site Manager, Parnassus
Supervisor, Electron Microscopy/Neuromuscular Special Studies Department of Pathology UC San Francisco Medical Center

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