The Zeiss Axioscan Z.1 is an automated slide scanner designed to capture whole slide images in both brightfield and epifluorescence modes, accommodating up to 100 slides per session.
Configuration:
- Cameras:
- Hamamatsu Orca-Flash 4.0 v3 sCMOS mono camera
- Hitachi HV-F203SCL 3CCD color camera
- Light sources:
- Colibri 7 for epifluorescence (385 nm, 430 nm, 475 nm, 555 nm, 590 nm, 630 nm,
735 nm)
- White led lamp for transmitted light
- Filter sets optimised for:
- DAPI (Zeiss BP 450/40)
- GFP / Alexa Fluor 488 / FITC (Zeiss BP 525/50)
- Cy3 / Alexa Fluor 555 / TRITC (Zeiss BP 605/70)
- Cy5 / Alexa Fluor 647 / APC (Zeiss BP 690/50)
- DAPI/GFP/Cy3/Cy5/Cy7 (Zeiss PBP 425/30+514/31+592/25+681/45+785/38)
- 6 objectives:
- 2,5x / 12 NA Fluar M27
- 5x / 25 NA Fluar M27
- 10x / 45 NA Plan-Apochromat M27
- 20x / 45 NA N-Achroplan Pol M27
- 20x / 8 NA Plan-Apochromat M27
- 40x / 95 NA Plan-Apochromat M27
- Slide racks:
- Standard microscope slides 75 x 25 mm
- Macro sections slides 75 x 50 mm
- File formats:
- “.czi” native lossless or lossy file format with JpegXR compression
- “BigTiff” after post processing
- “OME.TIFF” after post processing