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I have tested a few of these systems out. We currently have access to an Aperio scanner for brightfield slides and we have custom journals written in metamorph that let us scan 4 slides (multiple tissue sections per slide) on our inverted live cell fluorescence system.
In would say the best all in one solution I have tried would be the MetaSystems vSlide. It can do both fluorescence and brigthfield, has excellent software and data handling for large images (it uses some part of Imaris). It also has the ability to add a 880 slide loader if you only want to queue up slides once a week:)
The one thing to consider with all these systems is the file format they save in, is it conducive to use on a normal PC system, or do you need a massive scary beast just to open the files? The Aperio (vSlide and other dedicated slide scan systems) usually work fine even opening a very large image on a simple PC. But custom stuff like we get out of our MetaMorph driven solution can bring things to a grinding halt on the wrong system.
Cheers
Cam
Cameron J. Nowell
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I am looking to buy a new virtual slide scanner with both Fluorescent and bright field capabilities. What are your thoughts on the leica SCN400F?
Thank-you
sue
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