University of Leeds Embraces Virtual Microscopy with Aperio ScanScope Systems
Network of ScanScope Systems Supports Multiple Initiatives, Including Primary Diagnosis

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 VISTA, CA – August 29, 2005 – Aperio Technologies, the leading provider of virtual microscopy systems, announced today another successful ScanScope® System implementation at the University of Leeds, one of the top research universities in the UK. The latest systems join previously installed ScanScopes in supporting a broad array of initiatives, including potentially enabling primary diagnoses to be made without referring to the glass slide.

"After a competitive EU tendering process we are pleased to place an order with Aperio for five systems. Our current system has proved robust and provides high quality images that are available on www.virtualpathology.leeds.ac.uk," explained Professor Phil Quirke of the Academic Unit of Pathology, University of Leeds. "The Aperio system has allowed us to improve our research and bioinformatic systems and we are evaluating its role in routine reporting and clinical trials."

The University of Leeds has scanned over 10,000 slides for its educational, assessment testing, and tissue bank programs, and expects that number to ramp sharply with the addition of the five new systems. All of the ScanScope Systems selected by the university support high-throughput automated scanning and utilize Aperio's Digital Slide Information Management Software to manage the increased volume of digital slides. In addition, the university expects to benefit from use of Aperio's Magnification Changer option that enables users to double image resolution without the need for a second objective lens.

"The University of Leeds is an innovative, forward-thinking institution that embraces virtual microscopy and is actively working to embed it into all aspects of pathology operations," commented Dirk Soenksen, chief executive officer at Aperio. "We are pleased to continue to support them in their efforts through our UK-based European operations center."

Virtual microscopy is the practice of converting entire glass microscope slides to high resolution digital slides-entire-slide images that can be remotely viewed, quantitatively analyzed, and readily annotated, shared and managed, all without a traditional microscope. Aperio's line of ScanScope Systems delivers automated high-speed digital slide creation, management, and analysis for pathology. Archival and retrieval, quality assurance, frozen section interpretation, secondary consultations, and entire-slide image analysis are all improved with the ScanScope System.


About Aperio Technologies, Inc.

With the largest installed base of virtual microscopy systems, Aperio Technologies is a worldwide leader in virtual microscopy. Our award-winning ScanScope® scanners and Digital Slide Information Management Software deliver integrated digital slide creation, viewing, management, and analysis capabilities to pathologists. Applications include tissue microarrays, toxicology pathology, image analysis and workflow systems (PACS). The interactive telepathology capabilities provided by our systems offer an enhanced virtual microscopy experience ideally suited to telepathology, frozen section, hematopathology, and cytology uses. Our freely downloadable ImageScope™ viewer makes digital slides accessible anywhere, anytime. With headquarters in Vista, California, Aperio serves a global pathology market in clinical, research, and education. For more information, or to view a gallery of digital slides created by ScanScope Systems, please visit www.aperio.com.

 
* Aperio products are FDA cleared for specific clinical applications, and are intended for research use for other applications.