Aperio announces fluorescence scanner

Yay, here's the news many of you have been waiting for...  Aperio announces availability of a scanner for immunofluorescence samples.

The ScanScope FL acquires high-resolution multi-color digital images that can be archived permanently, eliminating concerns about fading of the fluorochromes on the glass slides over time. Image acquisition is optimized by using a monochrome camera and advanced illumination, autoexposure, and autofocus techniques.

The ScanScope FL provides:

• Faster automation with respect to tissue-finding, autofocusing, and autoexposure
• A wider variety of options, and more flexibility in filter configurations
• Digital slide images from up to four color channels in the default configuration, expandable if additional filter cubes are added
• A versatile visualization platform, in which the images can be viewed as individual color channels or as dynamic layers
• More quantitative image analysis using raw data from the 10-bit monochrome camera

In addition, the ScanScope FL shares with Aperio’s brightfield systems a simple user interface, ImageScope™ visualization software, and Spectrum Plus™ image and data management platform. It also conforms with Aperio’s image analysis architecture and Genie™ histology pattern recognition software.