School of Medical Sciences BIRU - MetaSystems VSlide

Cameras 

  • CoolCube1 (colour & monochrome)

Applications

  • Whole section scanning
  • Tissue microarray scanning and on the fly analysis
  • Brightfield, high resolution brightfield (using the monochrome camera) or fluorescence

Specifications

  • Zeiss Axio Imager Z2 fully motorised microscope
  • Automated 80 slide feeder
  • Objectives: Dry (2.5x/0.075 NA, 10x/0.45 NA, 20x/0.9 NA, 40x/0.95 NA) Oil (40x/1.3 NA, 63x/1.4 NA)
  • Automated oiler module
  • Filterset for DAPI, FITC, TxRed, Cy5 and triple viewing set.
  • Marzhauser Motorised 5 position scanning stage
  •  MetaCyte acquisition software and stitching
  • On the fly TMA (tissue microarray) analysis

Examples

If you want to see some examples which illustrate what can be done with this system, please take a look at the movies below which were created by Luke Hammond from QBI Microscopy using his VSlide.

 

Funded by

Room extension number

  • 82090

Contact people

Ratish Kurian
BIRU Computer Support Manager
Anatomy with Radiology
School of Medical Sciences
Room: 502-B07
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86195
Email: r.kurian@auckland.ac.nz

Ms Hilary Holloway
Senior Technical Officer
Anatomy with Radiology
School of Medical Sciences
Room: 502-501
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86761; +64 9 923 6761
Email: h.holloway@auckland.ac.nz

 



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