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Digital Pathology, Virtual Microscopy & Fluorescence Imaging

X-Cite® Fluorescence Imaging Applications for Digital Pathology & Virtual Microscopy

Digital Pathology is an image-based information environment enabled by virtual microscopy. This involves imaging glass slides and saving and distributing their digital images for analysis, archiving and storage.

The virtual microscopy slides are:

  • Scanned — using a microscope based scanning device that takes images of the whole slide via large scanning or stitching of smaller scans. This involves a motorized stage to scan the whole slide.
  • Viewed — on a computer via viewing software
  • Managed — some of the slides have a barcode that is also scanned to enable archiving with patient information
  • Analysis — using image analysis tools and software, structures maybe automatically identified and quantified
  • Sharing — digital pathology files may be shared over a network to gather additional expert opinion

Digital pathology technology in no way replaces the expert eye and diagnosing power of a pathologist and a doctor. The only thing it saves is time to image the samples and also provides an efficient and organized way to archive the virtual microscopy slides for future consultations, record-keeping and disease comparison.