Design of an Automatic Slide Making System for Liquid-based Cell Pathology
Due to the low degree of automation and high price of the existed liquid-based slide making equipment,manual or semi-man-ual production was generally used.Aiming at the problemsof the unstable production quality,high labor intensity and low efficiency,an au-tomated production system for liquid-based cell pathology slide was designed.The proposed overall scheme including the"computer+em-bedded controller"architecture and functional modules such as consumables supply,material transfer,sample processing,and pathological slides transportationweredeveloped.The special software for liquid-based slide production was formed.The testing experiment of digital auto-matic liquid-based slide production had been completed.It took 22 minutes to process 20 samples.The test result had shown that the proto-type of the liquid-based cell automatic productionsystem could improve the quality and efficiency of producting liquid-based cell slide.