Examination of Tissue Slices in 3D

Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments company and microDimensions announce a partnership to bring Voloom, from microDimensions, to the wider life sciences market via the Bitplane sales channels.

Voloom is an intuitive and automated software solution for the alignment and reconstruction of whole slide scanner images (and other series of 2D images) of any size. Voloom enables the examination of tissue slices as a 3D volume, Imaris natively reads Voloom output and can determine a number of key parameters (i.e. volume, shape, surface structure and many more quantitative measures).

The combination of Voloom and Imaris enables researchers who typically work with 2D serial sections (e.g. automated whole slide scanner or conventional microtome+microscope users) to complete quantitative analyses on 3D volumes.