Now available in the US, the Olympus VS110-Fluorescence (VS110-FL) virtual-slide microscope scanning system offers flexibility and high image quality for fluorescence and brightfield applications.
Based on award-winning technology, the VS110-FL has high-performance optics that can capture images at various magnifications and depths within the specimen.
Virtual microscopy generates high-resolution images of a whole specimen that can be shared with multiple viewers anywhere in the world.
The VS110-FL system is designed for research, pharmaceutical science, biotechnology and education applications, where enhanced colour fidelity and the ability to handle multiple tasks are required.
It is able to scan up to 100 glass slides per batch at high fidelity, enabling users to view and navigate high-resolution images of entire slides or slide areas.
The system has simple three-click operation.
Its 16-bit multichannel fluorescence capability and eight-position excitation/emission filter wheels allow fast acquisition of fluorescence images, with an extensive choice of fluorochromes for capturing intracellular detail.
Each channel is configured individually to enhance focus.
VS110-FL is currently the only virtual microscopy system of its kind with so many choices for specimen image capture magnification.
It comes standard with four Olympus Plansapo objectives - 4x, 10x, 20x and 40x, all with numerical apertures (NAs) of 0.95 for enhanced light gathering.
Olympus also offers high-NA 60x and 100x oil objectives for the VS-110-FL.
With standard Virtual-Z, images from up to 15 Z-planes (focal depths within the specimen) can be integrated, allowing the viewer to focus through the sample as if working with a traditional microscope.
Earlier versions of the instrument are being used for demanding research applications such as the Federal Connectome project, a research initiative in the US, where scientists are working to map all the neural connections in the human brain.
The VS110 range of scanners also earned two of the three top honors for quality at the first European Scanner Contest, which took place in May 2010 in conjunction with the 94th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Pathology and the 10th Pathology Federal Meeting.
