Usage

Manual slide-scanning is a good solution for many situations. However, there are several situations where manual slide-scanning is not feasible. Microvisioneer will assists you in finding out whether or not manual slide-scanning is a good choice for you.

A few reasons for both solutions are listed below. Most of them are related to the time it takes to scan a slide manually. While scanning biopsies at 20x take only 2-3 minutes, scanning a large sample (>20x20mm²) at 40x can easily take an hour.

Regarding the financial situation in various countries, there are significant variations of the feasibility threshold between manual and motorized scanning solutions.

Good reasons to consider manual slide-scanning:

- your samples should be scanned at low magnifications (2x, 4x, 10x)

- your samples need to be scanned at 20x or 40x magnification, but they are small or it is ok to scan a subregion (up to 10x10mm²)

- your samples have a clear outline and all parts of the tissue on the slide are connected

- you need to scan slides occasionally

Good reasons to consider motorized slide-scanning:

- you need to scan many slides regularly

- the barcode labels of your slides should be read automatically

- the samples on your slides are large (> 20x20mm²) and need to be scanned at 40x magnifications

- most of your samples consist of multiple parts that are not connected to each other