A past collaboration · no longer offered by X-WOW过去的一段合作 · X-WOW 已不再提供
X-WOW Slide ScannerX-WOW 切片扫描仪
For a while, X-WOW offered a small kit that turned an ordinary lab microscope into a whole-slide scanner: a microscope camera plus scanning software. The software came from Microvisioneer, a German company. It was offered under the X-WOW name as part of a past collaboration, and X-WOW no longer offers it.
有一段时间，X-WOW 提供过一套小小的组合，能把普通实验室显微镜变成全切片扫描仪：一台显微镜相机加一套扫描软件。软件来自德国公司 Microvisioneer。它当时以 X-WOW 的名义提供，是一段过去的合作；现在 X-WOW 已不再提供。
Get a scanner from Microvisioneer从 Microvisioneer 获取扫描仪
X-WOW has no current partnership with Microvisioneer and gets nothing for this link. It is here because they make the thing.
X-WOW 目前和 Microvisioneer 没有任何合作，这个链接也不带任何好处。放在这里，只因为东西是他们做的。
How it worked它是怎么工作的
Move the slide by hand; the software stitches as you go用手移动切片，软件边看边拼
- Fit the camera to the microscope's C-mount port and connect it to a computer by USB 3.把相机装到显微镜的 C 接口上，用 USB 3 连到电脑。
- Choose the objective in the software and balance brightness and colour on an empty patch of glass.在软件里选好物镜，对着一块空白玻璃把亮度和颜色调平衡。
- Move the slide in overlapping stripes. The live view grows into one stitched image; if the software loses its place, you move back slowly and carry on.把切片一条条、互相重叠地移动。实时画面会长成一整张拼接图；软件跟丢了，就慢慢移回去接着扫。
- Save the result as a pyramidal TIFF or SVS file and open it in a viewer such as the open-source QuPath.把结果存成金字塔结构的 TIFF 或 SVS 文件，用开源的 QuPath 等软件打开。
From the old X-WOW setup guide. As an example, it gave a 5 × 5 mm area scanned at 40× as roughly 90 MB at 90% compression quality.
以上摘自旧的 X-WOW 安装指南。指南里举的例子：40 倍下扫描 5 × 5 毫米的区域，按 90% 压缩质量保存，大约 90 MB。
Why it mattered为什么重要
A dedicated slide scanner costs more than many small labs can pay. Doing the moving by hand let a lab turn the microscope it already had into a scanner, and share whole slides with colleagues anywhere.
一台专用切片扫描仪，很多小实验室买不起。改成手动移动切片，实验室就能把已有的显微镜变成扫描仪，再把整张切片分享给任何地方的同行。
Malawi, 2019马拉维，2019 年
In March 2019, X-WOW ran a fundraiser and bought a manual whole-slide imaging system, costing under £5,000: a "magic wand" for Prof Elizabeth Molyneux's paediatric cancer work in Malawi, so slides could be reviewed together with colleagues 7,400 miles away.
2019 年 3 月，X-WOW 发起众筹，买下一套手动全切片成像系统（不到 5,000 英镑），作为送给 Elizabeth Molyneux 教授在马拉维儿童肿瘤工作的“魔法棒”，让切片可以和 7,400 英里外的同行一起看。
Today · checked 9 October 2026现在 · 2026 年 10 月 9 日核对 verified已核实
Where to get one now现在去哪里买
Microvisioneer still makes this kind of software. On its website, its manual scanning product is called mvSlide: it upgrades an existing microscope that has a suitable camera into a manual slide scanner, stitching the image in real time. It also offers InstaSlide for sharing zoomable virtual slides and mvLive for sharing live camera images.
Microvisioneer 现在仍在做这类软件。按它官网的介绍，手动扫描的产品叫 mvSlide：给已有的、配了合适相机的显微镜升级，变成手动切片扫描仪，图像实时拼接。它还有用来分享可缩放虚拟切片的 InstaSlide，以及分享实时相机画面的 mvLive。
Get a scanner from Microvisioneer从 Microvisioneer 获取扫描仪
Product names and details are theirs and may change; their site is the authority. Would you rather build an instrument yourself? Start with SWELL, the first invention on this site.
产品名称和细节以他们官网为准，随时可能更新。更想自己动手造仪器？从本站的第一个发明 SWELL 开始。