PANNORAMIC® DESK DW II 3.0.4
PREPARING SLIDES
MARCH 30, 2021
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Caution!
Do
NOT
scratch any circular marker onto the glass surface of a slide, use a soft tip pen
instead for marking area of interest.
3.1
Affixing barcode stickers to slides
This section describes how to affix barcode stickers to large slides. Barcodes enable virtual
slide identification.
Figure 6: Normal and large slides with barcode stickers
The label area (
1
) is recorded by the preview camera and can be displayed by the
Pannoramic® Scanner 3.0.4 control and viewer software.
To affix barcode stickers to slides, do the following:
1.
Peel off the barcode sticker
(2)
from the roll.
2.
Stick it on the colored label area
(1)
of the slide, on the specimen side. For large slides, the
label sticker must be applied on the left side of label area.
Caution!
Ensure that a marginal space of 1-2 mm remains on all sides between the sticker and the
label area outer limits. It is vital for barcode identification. Do not let barcode sticker
protrude from slide edges or stick on the coverslip surface
(3)
.
The thickness of the barcode sticker on the slide must not exceed 0.4 mm!
Do not stick
more than four barcode stickers over each other and the overall thickness must be kept
below 1.65 mm (including the barcodes and the slide).
