The Research Institute of the Hospital de Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau has just acquired a new automated digital pathology scanner to the Biobank and Immunohistochemistry core facility. It responds to the growing demand from IIB Sant Pau researchers, who expressed it through the user committee.
The new equipment – Pannoramic Scan II (3D Histech) has a 150-slide capacity and supports two objectives, 20x and 40x, as well as a fluorescence lamp, which allows high resolution and high speed digitization of slides under brightfield, fluorescence and FISH conditions, both automated and manually. It has filters for the main fluorochromes, making it a device capable of digitizing multiplexed preparations.
The software allows the serial capture of images in z, in both modes, allowing the digitization of thick tissues. It also has a license for the automated analysis of the images obtained, to help the interpretation and quantification of the expression of biomarkers within the tissue sections.
Therefore, the incorporation of this equipment to the Biobank and Immunohistochemistry facility offers a very complete solution for the digitization and analysis of slides for the analysis of histological, proteomic markers, subcellular, molecular and in situ hybridization probes.
This equipment has been acquired thanks to the contribution of the Institut de Recerca contra la leucèmia Josep Carreras, and to the mediation of Dr. R. Mangues and Dr. I. Casanova.
For more information about the equipment and the conditions of service, please contact Dr. Elena Serrano, head of the Biobank and Immunohistochemistry core facility.
