Surveyor Software with Turboscan for Real-Time Mosaic Imaging
Objective Imaging’s Surveyor automated scanning and imaging with Turboscan enables scanning and near perfect-image mosaic creation at camera frame rates.
Scan the entire slide in seconds, and then effortlessly relocate to areas of interest with a simple click. Quickly get the specimen overview to aid in understanding the relationships between microscopic features and overall structure. Save your work for later review, discussion, and publication.
Based on the OASIS-blue controller with the BLUE-EXPIO Encoder and Trigger interface module or OASIS-AF analogue video processor option, Surveyor with Turboscan provides everything a microscopist needs for surveying, relocating, printing and saving at a new standard in high-performance automation.
Turboscan Highlights:
- Scanning and acquisition at camera frame rates
- Support for various digital and analogue cameras
- Real-time high-quality image tiling
- Real-time shading correction
- Fast and accurate relocation
- Freely mix scans at various magnifications and locations
Addition information
Detailed Surveyor feature list
Surveyor for Image-Pro capture driver
Example Scan
Mouse, 10X objective lens, Turboscan mosaic of over 340 images
Digital camera resolution: 1388 x 1035 pixels
Scanned with predictive focus and shading correction
Total time for scan and mosaic: 42 seconds
Surveyor Features
Mosaic Acquisition
- Turboscan for fast continuous scan and acquire
- Standard scan for step and acquire for low light applications
- Snake and raster scanning
- User-defined settle time at each field
- Pause and continue scanning mode
- Grab individual fields into mosaic with key-press
- Acquire at full or reduced resolution
- JPEG compression option
- Image streaming for mosaic sizes limited only by free disk space
Scan Patterns
- Rectangle
- Circular
- Annular
- Cross (“+”, “x”)
- Random
- User-defined
- Save / load scan patterns
- Keyboard support for pattern scanning and stage navigation
Camera Support
- Image setup based on camera capabilities
- Exposure, gain, offset, and gamma control as available
- Automatic and manual white balance
- Colour or monochrome acquisition
- Frame-rate shading correction
- Shading correction on live display
- Calibrated graticule overlay on live image
- Grab, copy, save live image
Export / Import
- Workspace save and load of full mosaic, scan pattern and Surveyor environment
- Export mosaic as full resolution bitmap
- Export mosaic as reduced resolution bitmaps
- Export user-selected region of interest
- Print full mosaic or selected region
- Print preview
Specimen Map
- Stage and pattern views
- Point and click relocation to position or pattern field
- Real-time graphic display of current stage position on specimen map
- Zoom and pan
- Drag-drop pattern definition
- Acquire and display multiple mosaics at different magnifications
Calibration
- X and Y calibration factors
- Stored calibration table for multiple lens and secondary optic settings
- Guided camera to stage alignment procedure
- Automatic correlation-based calibration procedure
- Automatic stage orthogonality correction
Microscope Automation
- OASIS-4i XY stage and Z focus
- Software joystick for stage, focus, turret, and lamp control
- Leica Microsystems DM range focus, turret, condenser, and lamp control via RS-232
- Olympus BX-61 focus, turret, condenser, and lamp control via RS-232
- Stage and focus speed defined per objective
- Computer controlled parfocality and illumination defined per objective
Automatic Focus
- Multi-point predictive focus for continuous focus tracking
- Predictive focus setup wizard
- Video autofocus using OASIS-AF module
- Digital camera autofocus using OASIS-DC1 module
- Autofocus parameters stored separately for each objective lens
