The tissue microarray (TMA) technique brings revolutionary changes in high-throughput diagnosis by being able to handle up to several hundred samples in one block or in one slide. With the TMA technique you can save a considerable amount of time, reagents, and slide storage while achieving more standardized laboratory conditions. Tissue microarrays can make working with and evaluation of IHC, FISH and other staining protocols faster and easier.
3DHISTECH’s tissue microarray product range covers every step of the digital TMA workflow.
TMA WORKFLOW
Step 1
Sample designation and slide preparation from the donor blocks
Step 2
Slide scanning with a Pannoramic digital slide scanner
Step 3
Marking the representative tissue regions
Step 4
Block layout design in tha TMA Grand Master software
Step 5
Digital slide overlay and marker transfer
Step
Punching from donor block into recipient block and saving of Excel database
Step 7
TMA slide scanning with a Pannoramic digital slide scanner
Step 8
Evaluation of the TMA project using the TMA software and the Excel database
You need
Standardized solutions
For immunohistochemistry, constant quality is essential in all workflow
phases. Whether it is tissue microarray block building, slide scanning
or digital image analysis, you can be sure 3DHISTECH products provide
the best quality.
High quality brightfield scanning
The Pannoramic SCAN digital slide scanner won the 1st prize of ‘Quality
Scan 40x’ category at the first European Scanner Contest in 2010. The
same optical path is used in all of the other Pannoramic scanners,
delivering the best quality images to your screen in minutes!
Automated image quantification tools
Advanced image analysis algorithms are proved to be helpful in
diagnosis of IHC stained samples. 3DHISTECH’s automated IHC
quantification software are robust, powerful and cope with different
stain intensities.
Workflow tools
More stains mean more data and you need to channel this huge amount of
information into easily managable projects. The immunohistochemistry and
TMA workflow tools from 3DHISTECH offer a flexible and standardized way
to deal with these challenges.
Reviewing and reporting tools
The final step in the pathology workflow is of vital importance. You
need to present your diagnosis data in an easy-to-understand and
pleasing way. With the 3DHISTECH reviewing and reporting tools you can
achieve this faster.
