Olympus and Bacus Offer Nanozoomer Automated Digital Slide Scanner for Research

Manufactured by Hamamatsu Corporation, Nanozoomer allows researchers to do fast, accurate slide scanning for analysis, publication or archiving. With the click of a button, up to 210 slides are automatically scanned at 20x or 40x using a 4096 x 64 pixel CCD continuous-scan technology. The end result is a high-quality virtual slide in about four minutes.

Large numbers of tissue slides can be scanned automatically and completed overnight, with virtual slides ready for study in the morning. Once captured, each entire slide is easily viewed on a large, high-resolution monitor, allowing the observation of a larger area than the microscope's field of view.

Digitizing research slides also allows archiving without specimen degradation, glass breakage or other problems, and permits the same tissue specimen to be re-evaluated in subsequent studies. Nanozoomer is compatible with a variety of third-party analysis packages.

For more information, contact Olympus America Inc. at 1-800-455-8236; visit www.olympusamerica.com/microscopes or email olympusseg@econnextions.com.

Center Valley, PA, October 15, 2006