The Image Navigator™ is a major innovation for the clinical laboratory. Now that the international community has recommended that all screening and titering for ANA testing takes placed with ANA slide assays, the laboratory is looking for labor savings solutions for this assay. The Image Navigator™ automates the scanning of patient samples on Immuno Concepts’ fluorescent Hep-2000® assay by capturing up to four images per field, and sorts them into positive and negative folders for review by the technologist. This allows the technologist to quickly scan images for ANA negative patient samples, which is the majority of what most laboratories have to interpret.
The positive patient samples are then reviewed on an individual basis to determine positivity and to confirm the pattern, and determine if additional semi-quantitative titering is required. Any patients requiring titering can be easily loaded into the next run for testing.
*Available outside the USA only
