VivaScope - The Lucid VivaScope^® 2500

The VivaScope^® 2500 is a laser confocal microscope that images thick, excised tissue with cellular resolution during the Mohs Surgery procedure. Thick tissue specimens are loaded into a compact tissue cassette with no freezing, sectioning, or staining; cellular resolution images are obtained as soon as a cassette is placed on the VivaCell stage. The specimen can then be manually or automatically scanned, using the convenient mapping routines of the VivaScope 2500's application software.

Lucid introduced its first ex vivo confocal imager, the VivaScope 2000, in 1997. The VivaScope 2500 offers high resolution and simple handling of thick tissue specimens in a small, user-friendly size. Three laser wavelengths give the user the ability to combine reflectance confocal with two fluorescent wavelengths for different frames of view at the same cellular reference. No other imager combines such an extensive feature set in an easy-to-use, affordable, real-time solution for the analysis of excised tissue.

Confocal (right) H&E (left) images of a tissue margin from a Mohs section illustrating the entire thickness of the epidermis (EP) along with hair follicles (HF) and inflammatory cells (IC) within the dermis.

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