Efficient slice loading and unloading system and pathological slice scanner

Abstract

The invention provides an efficient slice loading and unloading system and a pathological slice scanner. The efficient slice loading and unloading system comprises a loaded slice box, an unloaded slice box, a loading and unloading mechanical arm and a slice box position adjusting device, the loading and unloading mechanical arm is used for shifting a slice after scan on a microscope stage to the unloaded slice box at one side of the microscope stage, and nearly simultaneously, the loading and unloading mechanical arm shifts a slice in the loaded slice box at the other side of the microscope stage to the microscope stage; the slice box position adjusting device is used for lifting the loaded slice box and the unloaded slice box to make different slice grooves in the unloaded slice box aligned with unloading stations of the microscope stage and different slices in the loaded slice box aligned with loading stations of the microscope stage. Slice loading and unloading are conducted almostsimultaneously, thus the positions of the loaded slice box and the unloaded slice box can be adjusted without waiting until a camera completes scanning, therefore the slice loading and unloading timecan be halved, and the overall efficiency of the scanner is improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a slice loading and unloading system for a pathological slice scanner, in particular to a slice loading and unloading system capable of efficiently loading and unloading slices and a pathological slice scanner with the slice loading and unloading system. Background technique [0002] In the pathological slice scanners in the prior art, the slice automatic loading and unloading system mostly uses the push rod in CN201210411328.3 to cooperate with the multi-slice loading system with the application number CN201320478999.1. The slice box is replaced by the rotation of the rotating tray, and the lifting device and The push rod aligns the slices to be tested one by one and pushes them into the front entrance of the stage. After scanning, the slices are pulled back to the original slice slot of the original slice box. Therefore, the complete loading and unloading process of slices includes three steps without cross-repetition: T1- mo...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] In the existing technology, a complete "scanning time" of a slice is actually consumed in the three steps of loading and unloading, and the actual scanning time with the camera accounts for 70-80%; and due to the thin and fragile characteristics of the slice, The loading and unloading operations should not be too fast or too fast to avoid damage to the slice due to improper thrust, which may also cause the scanning platform to become unbalanced, so the existing loading and unloading system is difficult to compress the time spent in these three steps

On the other hand, in order to ensure the high resolution and full field of view of pathological slice scanning, under the existing conditions, it is also difficult to shorten the actual scanning time of the camera

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