Distinctively styled, sleek and modern, superior methodology to set it apart from the rest, Aperio Technologies, Inc., a Vista, Calif. company, distribution will include Aperio's "award-winning ScanScope slide scanning systems and Spectrum digital pathology information management software to the medical market, including hospitals and academic medical centers, within Europe. Aperio's digital pathology systems are based on the company's patented linear array-based ScanScope slide scanners, which produce flawless, true color whole slide images from an entire glass slide in a matter of minutes. The system has Line scanning, which significant advancement in rapid, high resolution virtual microscopy. Line scanning is a superior methodology to image tiling that can take hours to capture and align the thousands of tiles that are required to create a contiguous image. ScanScope scanners do not use a fixed-area camera to capture thousands of individual image tiles but instead employ linear-array detectors in conjunction with specialized motion control components, a microscope objective lens and customized optics. As a result, ScanScope scanners proficiently capture a small number of contiguous overlapping image stripes. Whereas image tiling is inherently stop-and-go, ScanScope scanners continuously move microscope slides during the acquisition of imagery data. This ability to capture imagery data while the sample is moving is a key reason why line scanning is ideally suited for rapid slide digitization.

Aperio's slide scanning systems include the ScanScope GL-E configured for education, the ScanScope GL-T configured for telepathology, as well as the 5-slide ScanScope CS and the 120-slide high throughput ScanScope XT.
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