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News Release from: Syncroscopy | Subject: SyncroScan
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 20 July 2004
High speed focus and stage control
Automated system for practically any optical microscope offers high-speed slide scanning to create precise image maps
Syncroscopy introduces SyncroScan, its new high speed focus and stage control system SyncroScan automates sample scanning with many leading optical microscopes to rapidly provide accurate image maps
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 16 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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A SyncroScan system comes with a high-resolution camera, a motorised XY stage and a Z stepper, all of which will attach to virtually any optical microscope.
This hardware is linked to a PC preloaded with SyncroScan software and a stage controller board, which automates the stage and stepper, as well as controls the microscope's illumination, condenser, top lens and objectives.
With SyncroScan the stage moves continuously to scan at up to 25 fields per second.
While scanning, the software simultaneously focuses, captures, shade corrects and stitches each image side-by-side to produce one large real-time image map of image tiles.
Both the map and tiles can be saved to ensure users have a secure record of each sample.
For microscopists who require the ultimate image stitching accuracy, SyncroScan can also be supplied with XY encoders to control the fine adjustment of image capture from the stage.
These ensure perfect positioning of each image tile to provide an image map where each tile is accurately aligned.
SyncroScan is also fully compatible with Syncroscopy's Auto-Montage 3D imaging software and is ideal for users who want to automatically produce focused images of 3D samples.
Martin Smith, Syncroscopy's divisional manager stated: "SyncroScan is the fastest stage and focus control system on the market today. Request a free brochure from Syncroscopy ...
"This leading technology is ideal for all laboratories that routinely screen large numbers of slides because its speed and ease of use will help save time, as well as significantly improve the quality of results.".
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