Pannoramic 1000 1.2 – User’s Guide
4 Software and Work-flow
Preview image is taken after clicking the
button. If you click the
button, preview image
becomes movable with the mouse and zoomable by scrolling with the mouse wheel, and FOV grid
becomes more visible by zooming in, and also, the drawing toolbox is displayed. The drawn shape on
the preview image is movable, rotatable, and can be resized by grabbing the corners.
Click
to display label area of the slide, and click
to view the original slide preview.
The following options can be managed to fine-tune scanning parameters:
•
Grabbing
– Grabbing method works in FLASH / Brightfield mode only
•
Multilayer
– Select Single layer option if you want to scan a single layer of the slide.
•
Output resolution
– The resolution of the output digital slide can be modified to result a
smaller file size. You can select the objective and its output resolution, where
Native
is the
raw resolution of the slide, and other values (10x, 20x, etc.) depending on the size native
resolution.
•
Image settings
– You can select from the following image formats:
◦
JPEG
◦
PNG
◦
BMP
There are four predefined
Quality
types, and a custom settings option on the list:
◦
Medium (60%)
◦
Good (80%)
◦
Fine (90%)
◦
Excellent (95%)
◦
Custom
by which unique quality setting can be achieved as follows:
▪
JPEG
– The quality can be adjusted with the
Quality value
slider. Greater values result
in better quality, but larger files. The default setting is 80%.
▪
PNG
– Lossless compressed image format.
▪
BMP
– Lossless uncompressed image format, but larger files due to less effective
compression. It is a raw data file.
Greater values result in better quality, but larger files. The default setting is 80% (good).
•
Focusing
◦
Focus Distance
– This value determines the distance of focus points in µm instead of
FOVs. This value should be selected depending on the unevenness and size of the
specimen.
•
Preview Grabbing Mode
– Use this option to select the mode in which the preview image is
taken
◦
Brightfield Preview mode
•
Preview threshold
– Set On/Off in
Auto
,
Manual
, or
Marker
modes
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