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BD FocalPoint™ GS Imaging System Introduction
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Table 2
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1 describes the data in the slide information area.
Table 2 - 1 – Physical Dimensions
2.3 BD FocalPoint™ GS Imaging System Workflow
There are two phases to the BD FocalPoint™ GS Imaging System workflow: Phase 1 is
performed on the BD FocalPoint™ Slide Profiler and Phase 2 is performed on the
BD FocalPoint™ GS Review Station.
2.3.1 BD FocalPoint™ Slide Profiler
The following sequence describes Phase 1 of the workflow. Refer to Figure 2
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3 for an illustration.
1 All slides are processed on BD FocalPoint™ Slide Profiler.
2 Print sets are created.
3 Slides are ranked based on the likelihood of abnormality.
4 Slides are designated for directed QC Review.
5 Slide information and FOV coordinates are sent to the central server database.
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All slides that are not successfully processed on the BD FocalPoint™ Slide Profiler require a
full manual screen (see Section 4).
Barcode Slide accession number or unique identifier.
FocalPoint Action Indicates whether the slide was successfully
processed.
Quintile ranking Each print set is divided into 5 groups based on slide
scores. Quintile 1 has the highest probability of
abnormality, followed by Quintile 2, Quintile 3, and so
on.
Report Message Displays the processing message if the
BD FocalPoint™ Slide Profiler produced one.
Slide status Tracks screening and reporting activities.
Endocervical
Component and
Squamous Cells
Provides adequacy information.
Percentile &
Numeric Ranking
Provide additional methods of indicating slide ranking
information.