Digital Pathology Core
The Digital Pathology Core is an institutional core housed within the BUMC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Its mission is to provide high-quality digital pathology services to members of the Boston Medical Center (BMC) and BU research community to support innovative and impactful science.
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Services
The primary service of the Digital Pathology Core is to facilitate high-throughput digitization of histologic glass slides to generate digital Whole Slide Images (WSIs) for downstream computer-assisted analyses. This includes any type of chromogenic histologic image for all tissue sources. All tissue must be coverslipped. Barcode labels are provided by the core. Scanning is performed on a Leica GT450 digital slide scanner at 20x or 40x magnification, producing .svs files. WSIs are uploaded to a local BU server and can be transferred to other servers or uploaded to a portable hard drive. The core has 2 GT450 scanners, which can accommodate up to 900 slides at one time, with a scan speed of approximately 80 slides per hour.
Fees
| Sample Type | Description | Fees |
| Scanning | Scanning fees are based on the number of slides. | $5 per slide. |
Contact
Jonathan Cherry, PhD
Core Director
For all inquiries related to the Digital Pathology Core, please contact us at jdcherry@bu.edu.
Location
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
72 East Concord St., Room L533
Boston, MA 02118
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