How are Virtual Slides created?
The partner technology to Neuroinfo is the Virtual Slice Module in the Neurolucida and Stereo Investigator software products from MicroBrightField. This Virtual Slice module allows for automated image acquisition of an entire microscope slide at any magnification available on the microscope. The software drives the motorized stage to acquire all fields-of-view contained in the region of interest, then seamlessly stitches the fields into a single image montage. Using innovative technology from Zoomify, the images are compressed and stored in the pyramidal format described above. If acquisition systems are not available, MicroBrightField offers slide scanning services. MicroBrightField does not use its own proprietary file formats for its virtual slides; all slide files are industry standard formats viewable by 3rd party software.
