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Whole-Slide Brain Scanning

From tissue slide to a stitched digital brain section

Definition
Automated acquisition of an entire brain section at high resolution, by tiling individual fields of view and stitching them into one mosaic. The result is a single large-format image for atlas registration and quantitative analysis.
Under 1 Minute
Specified for a full dual-channel coronal section at 10X
Continuous Mosaic
No visible tile boundaries in the final image

The Scanning Process

A typical mouse brain coronal section spans roughly 10 x 8 mm, far larger than a single microscope field of view. Whole-slide scanning:

  • Path planning: PanoBrain detects tissue boundaries and plans an efficient scanning path, skipping empty areas
  • Tile acquisition: hundreds of overlapping tiles captured at the selected magnification (10X, 20X, or 40X)
  • Real-time stitching: tiles are joined with intensity normalization and sub-pixel alignment
  • Multi-channel: each tile captures all fluorescence channels before moving to the next position

PanoBrain is specified to complete a full dual-channel scan in under one minute per section.

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