Live telepathology with a Mikroscan system is truly live, where a pathologist examines a slide in real-time just as they would on their conventional microscope. The live image streams from the chosen objective and the remote pathologist has full control of the robotic microscope. Learn more about live telepathology.

Our telemicroscopy technology improves the quality of patient care by giving a pathologist access to a patient’s slide without the need to travel or ship the slide. This expands the patient’s access to sub-specialty pathology expertise and results in a faster diagnosis. Learn more about improving patient care.

A key consideration for clinical use of live telepathology is the regulatory classification of the device. Mikroscan's L5 remotely controlled robotic microscope is registered with the FDA as a Class I Light Microscope, meaning it has the same clinical status as a traditional microscope and can be used in any diagnostic capacity—including primary diagnosis—by a board-certified professional. Our dual-mode SL5 system includes a live telepathology mode approved for primary diagnosis AND a whole-slide scanner meant for archival, QA, and research use only. Learn more about our live telemicroscopy system.

An increased demand for rapid on-site evaluations of adequacy (ROSEA) has outpaced the availability of cytopathologists at many institutions, leading to unnecessary repeat FNA procedures.
Telecytology using Mikroscan’s L5 real-time telemicroscopy system addresses this problem by allowing pathologists to conveniently read slides from their offices using an autofocus capability that focuses in a fraction of a second, which is tailored for cytology slides. Learn more about on-site adequacy. Learn more about telecytology.

With live telemicroscopy, a pathologist doesn’t need to be on site for frozen section coverage, which saves travel time and frees the pathologist to review other important cases. Specialists can also be reached remotely, which ensures quick access to the best pathologist for the case. Learn more about frozen section support.

A live telemicroscopy system that uses a robotic microscope, like Mikroscan systems, fits in seamlessly with the pathology workflow, and pathologists feel immediately comfortable using it. Implementation also doesn't require extensive infrastructure changes, so setup is easy and cost-effective, allowing pathologists to hit the ground running. This increased efficiency also allows pathologists to expand their reach and generate more revenue.  Learn more about improving efficiency.

When hospitals employ live telemicroscopy, they experience a reduction in re-operation rates, repeat biopsies, and diagnostic errors. Using ROSE, repeat biopsy rates have been shown to decrease by 20%, a $1.5K savings per biopsy¹. Learn more about reducing costs in healthcare.

Digital pathology systems create whole-slide digital images of pathology slides. This technology aids researchers who can perform quantitative analysis on specimens using image analysis algorithms specifically created for their application. They can also collaborate with many multi-disciplinary teams, allowing them to make more advanced discoveries in less time. Educators can also use digital slide images to teach remote and online students using an archive of rare or interesting cases. Learn more about digital pathology.

There are two whole-slide scanning systems on the market with FDA clearance for clinical applications, but they are for FFPE slides only, which means they cannot be used for frozen sections or fine needle aspirations. All other scanning systems are meant to be used for research, education, or archival purposes only. Learn more about digital pathology.

You can experience the benefits of digital pathology by scanning only the slides you need. Using a low-throughput system you can scan only the slides you need for the most common clinical applications, such as remote frozen sections, consultations, tumor boards, medical education, and archival for easy retrieval. Learn more about how to adopt digital pathology.

Digital pathology doesn't have to be expensive, especially if you start with a live telepathology system that is a fraction of the cost of a high-throughput scanner and requires none of the infrastructure expenditures. Learn more about how to affordably adopt digital pathology.

Digital pathology systems create whole-slide digital images of pathology slides. This technology aids researchers who can perform quantitative analysis on specimens using image analysis algorithms specifically created for their application. They can also collaborate with many multi-disciplinary teams, allowing them to make more advanced discoveries in less time. Learn more about digital pathology in a research setting.

Using digitized images of glass slides hosted in the cloud, students can learn online, from anywhere, as well as collaborate with each other. Rare cases that a medical center might not otherwise have access to can be shared, expanding the breadth of knowledge. Learn more about digital pathology.

Many digital pathology scanners are high capacity (60 - 400 slides), which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Lower capacity systems, like Mikroscan’s SL5 (2 - 20 slides) are a small fraction of that price, allowing you to purchase several systems for the cost of just one high-capacity whole-slide scanner. We also offer multi-system and special affiliate pricing. Contact us for more details.

Live telemicroscopy systems like our L5 are even less expensive than low-capacity scanners. Contact us for more details.

A Mikroscan system can be installed and up and running in less than 2 hours, with minimal IT configuration.

All of our systems come with a 1-year warranty covering service and support. After that period, service and support contracts are available at affordable rates.

At 20x, a 15mm x 15mm slide can be scanned in 53 seconds. At 40x, in 139 seconds. Learn more about our whole-slide scanner and technical specifications.

All of our systems use a complete set of high-quality, true brightfield microscope Olympus objectives—2X, 4X, 10X, 20X, and 40X—that can be configured based on your intended use. The objectives can be customized for use with both cover-slipped and non-cover-slipped slides as well as include an option for magnification up to 60X. User selection of magnification, illumination, and focus on regions of interest are all controlled by a remotely located user. For ease of use, both coarse and fine focus modes are supported as well as an autofocus capability. Learn more about our systems.

We have multiple systems with different slide-capacity options. Choose to view or scan 1 - 2 slides, or up to 20 slides using an autoloader. Learn more about our systems.

Our L5 and SL5 systems are very compact. They are desktop systems with a footprint of 1-square-foot and a weight of only 32 pounds, which allows them to be put on a cart and taken directly into clinics where cytologists, for example, can perform FNA adequacies without leaving their offices. Learn more about our systems.

Yes. Our systems connect through many third-party HIPAA-compliant remote-access options, all of them stringently evaluated to ensure optimum security and performance. Contact us for more information.

No, our systems are non-proprietary and images can be viewed, stored, analyzed, and shared from any image management system. Our open architecture also allows seamless integration with any PIMS or LIS. Contact us for more information.