VENTANA® DP 200 slide scanner

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Advance your pathology workflow with high-quality, high-resolution digital imaging

The VENTANA DP® 200 slide scanner is a computer and imaging-based device that has the capability to scan, digitize, compress, store, retrieve, and view digitized images of slide specimens. When used with VENTANA Image Viewer, the VENTANA DP 200 slide scanner provides automated digital slide creation, management, and viewing capabilities to aid pathologists with in-vitro examination of human tissue specimens.

Pathology lab technician loading a slide tray into the VENTANA DP 200 slide scanner for whole slide imaging.

The VENTANA DP 200 slide scanner offers multiple applications and use cases to laboratories

Designed for a variety of applications, the VENTANA DP 200 slide scanner is a six-slide high-speed brightfield scanner with excellent image quality to enhance pathologists' review of digital slides. This fast and easy-to-use high-resolution slide scanner offers a no-touch start process, an intuitive user interface, and is well-suited for remote site scanning, first-time digital pathology users, frozen section scanning, and more.

  • Immediate file transfer for earlier collaboration
  • Remote site scanning
  • Scan a variety of slide types including H&E, IHC, ISH, special stains, cytology, and frozen sections
Benefits at a glance

Benefits at a glance

Stopwatch icon illustrating high-speed scanning on the VENTANA DP slide scanner.

Help maximize workflow and improve turnaround times

  • Intuitive design
  • No-touch start process
  • Minimalistic user interface

Achieve fast results with:

  • 20x magnification scans in about 36 seconds 
  • 40x magnification scans in about 73 seconds (15 mm x 15 mm AOIs).
Icon of a shield with a tick, illustrating robust design of the VENTANA DP slide scanner tray system.

The VENTANA DP 200 has automatic calibrations and built-in diagnostics to deliver consistent, robust system performance. Slides are loaded and scanned using a tray-based system, which eliminates slide-handling errors and improves reliability.

Award rosette icon illustrating the high-quality images produced by the VENTANA DP 200 slide scanner.

The VENTANA DP 200 produces high-resolution digital images for various tissue types, including challenging slides such as frozen sections. Dynamic focus technology and innovative optics create high quality images with color reproduction that maps to glass slides as seen under microscopes.

  • Color management: Uses International Color Consortium (ICC) color standard profile generation in every scan
  • Dynamic focus: Tracks tissue depth in real time and uses the data for high resolution slide scanning
  • Calibration: Automatic white balance calibration to ensure consistent image quality
Icon of a stack of files illustrating the standardized outputs of the VENTANA DP 200 slide scanner.

The VENTANA DP 200 slide scanner is DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) compatible. The scanner provides a standardized output file format for interoperability with PACS servers. Output file formats include BIF, TIF, and DICOM.

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Overview

Ordering Information

Product specification Value
Slide capacity  6 single slides, 3 double slides
Scan magnification  20x and 40x
Focus method Dynamic focus
Volume scan Up to 15 layers
Time to view <49 seconds @ 20x
<85 seconds @ 40x (15 mm x 15 mm AOIs)
Scan time 20x: approximately 36 seconds,
40x: approximately 73 seconds for a 15 mm x 15 mm AOI
Slide handling No slide handling, tray-based movement
Dimensions/weight

19.6 in x 26.7 in x 18.2 in (W x D x H) / <105 lbs

49.78 cm x 67.82 cm x 46.23 cm / <48 kg

Calibration Auto-calibration
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Roche VENTANA whole slide scanners comparison overview

VENTANA® DP 200 slide scanner
VENTANA® DP 600 slide scanner
Slide capacity
6 single slides or 3 double slides
240 slides, 40 trays of 6 single slides
Scan magnifications
20x and 40x
20x and 40x
Focus technology
Dynamic Focus
Dynamic Focus
File formats supported
BIF, TIF, DICOM
BIF, TIF, DICOM
Slide handling
No slide handling, tray-based movement
No slide handling, tray-based movement
Calibration
Auto-calibration
Auto-calibration

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