The VS200 System

Slide Capacity & FormatTray format: Single 6 slide tray

  • Standard slide dimensions: 26 × 76 mm (1 × 3 in.).

Imaging Modalities

Transmitted Light / Brightfield

  • Illumination: LED white light for high quality color imaging.
  • Camera: RGB color camera for chromogenic brightfield samples.

Fluorescence Imaging

  • Fluorescence light source: X Cite XYLIS II is a broad spectrum LED fluorescence illumination system
  • Camera: Hamamatsu ORCA Fusion CMOS (high sensitivity B/W)
  • Fluorescence filter sets: 
Name Excitation Emission
DAPI 378/52 432/36
FITC 474/27 525/45
TRITC 554/23 609/54
Cy5 635/18 680/40

High performance Olympus X Line objectives

Magnification Type
2x Dry
4x Dry
10x Dry
20x Dry
40x Dry

 

Data will be uploaded to the HistopathSlides shared drive. GWU investigators will have access to imaging data files 3 hours after scanning completion
All digital files will be saved to the system’s D: drive and kept for 28 days, after which they will be automatically deleted.
The scanner is available Monday to Friday between 9an and 5 pm except for University Holidays and staff time off.  Please fill in the work request form (link to form)  to reserve the scanner (the equipment calendar is embedded in the request to book independent use of the scanner)