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Cody Daniel '11 and his colleagues at 3Scan are developing a 3D imaging technology that will change the way pathologists study disease. The first iteration of 3Scan's tool, the knife-edge scanning microscope (KESM) was developed by Bruce McCormick at Texas A&M University to study neuroscience. With Daniel's machine design experience, 3Scan has adapted and commercialized the KESM for the digital pathology world.

The KESM automates and speeds up the manual method pathologists have used for more than 150 years to look at disease in tissue samples. Conventional pathology typically involves cutting tissue samples by hand, placing each sample between two pieces of glass, and studying it under a microscope. A human can typically process about 12 sample slices per hour.

3Scan's KESM tool cuts samples at 1,000 slices per hour while simultaneously scanning an image of each slice to create a 3D tissue model.

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