Olympus America has launched the Nanozoomer RS, a compact virtual microscopy system designed for laboratories that want to convert smaller volumes of glass slides into high-quality digital slides.
Nanozoomer RS offers the same speed, image quality and reliability as the Nanozoomer HT, which was released in the US two years ago, and is compatible with the same Nanozoomer fluorescence illumination kit, introduced last year.
Nanozoomer RS provides fast and accurate slide scanning for analysis, publication or archiving.
The compact design includes interchangeable slide trays that hold six standard specimen slides or two double-size slides.
The Nanozoomer RS also features the ability to scan a whole tissue slide at various levels to create a complete virtual slide, which can then be viewed at different focal planes to simulate the coarse and fine focusing functionality of a conventional microscope.
The optional fluorescence illumination unit allows the Nanozoomer RS to scan fluorescently labelled samples with good colour fidelity.
Digital slide technology allows users to scan and archive entire slides at high resolution without degradation of image quality, eliminating the potential for image fading that usually hampers fluorescence slide archiving.
An image of the entire slide is available on a large monitor, and users can select specific points for further magnification and observation, or for comparison with other samples.
Digitised samples can be reproduced and edited for teaching or consultation.
Both Nanozoomer HT and Nanozoomer RS are suitable for applications such as research, education and training, remote consultation, multi-disciplinary team meetings, image archiving, and digital image reference libraries.
The Nanozoomer RS is particularly well suited to applications with low-volume scanning needs, or where space is at a premium.
Nanozoomer RS is compatible with a variety of third-party analysis packages.
