{"id":207,"date":"2019-05-06T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/becf\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:24:25","slug":"vs120-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/becf\/micronano-imaging-mni-facility\/vs120-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus VS120 Virtual Slide Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The VS120 is a high-throughput slide scanner that is capable of automatically imaging and stitching 100 slides in color bright field mode<\/strong> as well as fluorescence mode<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The automated slide scanner is equipped with 10x, 20x, 40x objectives, a 3.2MP colored camera (AVT Pike F-505C) for color imaging, and a Hamamatsu Orca Flash 4.0 for fluorescence imaging with fluorescence emission\/excitation filter cubes for the following stains: DAPI, FITC, TRITC, CY5 and CY7 dyes. An X-Cite 120LED light engine from Excelitas is used for fluorescence excitation, to ensure minimum system maintenance.<\/p>\n

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Other Resources<\/h2>\n

Quick Start Guide<\/h3>\n

Here is an Olympus VS120 Quick Start (rev 1.0)<\/a> guide that the MNI Facility wrote for this instrument.<\/p>\n

Here is the manual for this Olympus VS120 Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Video Tutorials<\/h3>\n

Our friends at UT Dallas has made excellent tutorial videos on how to operate the Olympus VS120. Click here<\/a> to be redirected to their website to view their videos.<\/p>\n

Here are the direct Youtube videos.\u00a0Don’t forget to “like” their work.<\/p>\n