3D Histech Pannoramic MIDI User Manual page 48

Pannoramic MIDI 1.18 User's Guide
Accordingly, further adjustments can be made, except if PNG or BMP image format is
selected.
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Scan Settings
Focus distance in field-of-views – the distance of focal points can be set to create a focus
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map, based on which the software calculates interpolated focus values (one step in distance
means one FOV).
Use Stitching function enables the seamless stitching of digital tiles.
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Save image in original Bayer size function is only available if Stingray camera is installed on
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the scanner. It is not accessible for configurations installed with CIS camera.
Image fields will be saved with native pixel resolution. If this function is disabled, you will
work with reduced pixel resolution. These resolution differences are not really visible with
the human eye, what is important in this feature is the resulting smaller file size.
Brightfield Compensation
The Use saved compensation image function enables the use of previously recorded
reference images for all slides. Use this function when the slide is completely covered by the
specimen (for example, blood smear) thereby making compensation image capture
impossible. For such slides, use an empty slide with coverslip to grab a compensation image
(for more information, see section
software will not create new compensation images for each slide. Compensation images are
reference images used for white balancing and shading.
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Figure 25 – Image encoding window
JPEG – The quality can be adjusted with the JPEG quality factor slider. Greater
values result in better quality, but larger files. The default setting is 80%.
PNG – Lossless compressed image format.
BMP – Lossless uncompressed image format, but larger files due to less effective
compression. It is a raw data file.
4.2.2 Image Compensation). If you select this, the
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