DVI Sample System
Microscience Group Inc.'s approach to microimaging succeeds
by eliminating the need to mount specimens on glass microscope
slides. Samples are trimmed by the user and put into a proprietary
transport vial that limits the size of the sample to an imagable
size (below).
The processing of the sample is more highly automated than in
standard histologic microscopy because in DVI the entire sample
is stained instead of just a section from it, and the staining
step can then be added as a bath in the tissue processor. After
staining, the sample is passed through a series of solvents
and finally into the company’s proprietary opacified polymer
to form a black, precisely configured block ready for the DVI
Microimager™. The vial, and the block made in it, can be bar-coded
or otherwise made machine-readable so that the sample identity
chain is not breached during processing.
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