Arizona Telemedicine Technology Assessment Program

Pathology Imaging Facilities

Pathology Imaging Laboratory
This 600 square foot biomedical imaging laboratory is located in the Department of Pathology. There is a Roche Image Analysis Pathology Workstation which includes a high resolution CCD color camera (Kontron) attached to an Olympus microscope and a 486 DX computer with an ImageManagerTM software package. There are several Macintosh Centris 650 computers. Morphometrics is performed on a Bioquant system. A Zeiss laser scan microscope (410 LSM) is used for 3-D tissue imaging. A Zeiss photoscope III with HOB hg epifluorescence and a Zeiss fluorescence microscope with halogen epifluorescence are used for immunofluorescence. There is a JEOL 100 CX electron microscope with scanning and EDAX capabilities in an electron microscopy facility. A Zeiss inverted video microscope is used for real-time cell motion analyses.

Specimen Preparation Laboratory
This laboratory houses the first production Ventana Medical systems (Model 320ES) automated immunostainer/in situ hybridization instrument. This instrument is a kinetic-mode, electronically driven in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry instrument with a capacity for 40 assays per 1 to 3 hour period. The equipment can be used to optimize tissue section preparation for video imaging.

Updated: May 3, 2001