The Aperio GT 180 scanner delivers the proven image quality and speed of trusted Aperio scanners in a design that works for your lab.
For many researchers, the shift to digital pathology still feels like a daunting task. Teams are navigating increasing pressure to do more with less, all while balancing tight timelines and growing expectations around collaboration and consistency. Modern labs need a digital pathology slide scanner that’s compact, cost-effective, and capable of delivering high-quality results without expert-level training.
For Research Use Only. Not for Use in Diagnostic Procedures.
*Optional Features
Aperio iQC Software is now available in certain countries/regions only. Contact your Leica Biosystems representative for more information.
The compact design of the Aperio GT 180 scanner makes it the ideal starting point for labs ready for digital pathology. With built-in touchscreen technology and no controller computer, monitor, or keyboard, the Aperio GT 180 scanner fits into the most compact laboratory benchtop spaces.
With a custom objective lens, designed specifically for digital pathology, coupled with patented image capture technology, the Aperio GT 180 scanner leverages the proven imaging capabilities and optical pathway of the Aperio GT 450 scanner. Perform expert pathology without sacrificing your space or budget, with no scanning knowledge required to achieve best-in-class whole slide image (WSI) quality.
The Aperio GT 180 scanner, with its open-faced design, allows for continuous rack loading while scanning is in progress, maximizing productivity. Easy access to the loading area ensures seamless operation, reducing workflow interruptions and eliminating downtime between batches. This feature optimizes slide throughput, enabling technicians to maintain consistent processing speeds throughout the day.
Optional Aperio iQC software enhances automatic image quality control, ensuring confidence before scans are delivered. Using AI-enabled detection, it identifies whole slide image (WSI) artifacts and provides notifications through a quality control dashboard, flagging issues and recommending corrective actions so anyone in the lab can rescan.
Gain control over slide capture, which helps ensure high-quality images from even the most challenging tissue samples. Quickly rescan slides from the same location, making real-time adjustments to faint stains, small tissue fragments, or low-density samples. This feature minimizes workflow disruptions and enhances image clarity and consistency.
An efficient imaging solution that enhances image quality while optimizing storage needs. By combining multiple focus layers into a single, ultra-sharp image, Extended Focus ensures all cells remain in focus without requiring users to scroll through layers. Smaller file sizes speed up data transfer, facilitating faster collaboration and enabling remote access to high-quality images.
Default Calibration Point reduces the risk of striping from the start, allowing lab managers to maintain image clarity without additional adjustments. technicians benefit from a streamlined scanning process that enhances efficiency and delivers consistently high-quality results with minimal effort.
Aperio GT 180 uses a high-performance objective manufactured by Leica Microsystems, which has produced world-class optics since 1847. Leica optics deliver exceptional image quality.
*Optional Features
The Aperio GT 180 scanner is designed to bring digital pathology within reach, whether you’re driving innovation in research, managing daily lab operations, or ensuring IT systems run smoothly. 25+ years of digital pathology expertise can help everyone in your lab take the next step into digital pathology with confidence.
Gain deeper insights with high-quality digital slides, ensuring precision and reproducibility with expertly crafted Leica optics. Experience seamless integration into research workflows, enabling effortless collaboration and more efficient analysis.
Easy to use and intuitive to learn, the continuous loading, high-automation, and small footprint enables labs to enjoy a smooth, stress-free digital pathology workflow. Advanced feature options such as Manual Scan, for challenging slides, and Aperio iQC software, to streamline quality control.
Secure, scalable, and easy to integrate; seamlessly connect the Aperio GT 180 scanner to your lab’s existing systems and infrastructure and leverage the widely used .svs or standardized DICOM file format for rapid integration with downstream software.
Capture every critical detail with exceptional clarity, from cellular grooves and chromatin structure to intracellular bridges in H&E, or crisp, clear images of your IHC, ISH, and brightfield multiplex slides.
Digital pathology scan speeds have not always been fast enough at 40x magnification to keep up with high-volume scanning (120k+ slides per year). Real-Time Focusing (RTF)** offers a potential solution to this problem. It’s a novel method to capture a digital image that combines an imaging line sensor and a focusing line sensor.
**US Patent no. 9,841,590
The Aperio GT 180 is designed to be operated under the following environmental conditions:
- Indoor use
- Overvoltage Category II
- 20% to 80% relative humidity (RH), non-condensing
- Operating temperature: 15° to 30°C (59° to 86°F)
