Tula oncology dispensary will be equipped with a digital scanner for the national project

Within the framework of the federal project “Fighting cancer” of the national project “Long and active life”, 16 digital scanners of IIA micropreparations will be purchased in the near future to equip 14 Russian regions, including the Tula region. For these purposes, 432.2 million rubles will be allocated from the budget.

A digital micropreparation scanner is a device that digitizes histological preparations from glass, creating a highly detailed image of tissues. In fact, this is a transition from classical microscopy to digital pathology: a pathologist examines the drug not in the eyepiece, but on a monitor screen.

According to the specification, each scanner must simultaneously load at least 12 micropreparations, support optical magnification of 20× and 40×, have automatic focusing and a barcode reader to identify samples. In addition, the scanner purchased must work with standard object glasses of 75×26 mm and a thickness of 0.9–1.1 mm, be equipped with a server for storing data - digital slides occupy significant volumes, support SVS and TIFF formats - industry standards for storing digitized drugs, as well as automatically determine the scanning area - the program itself finds a biological sample on the glass, replacing the manual labor of a laboratory assistant.

One of these digital scanners will be delivered to the Tula region, for the needs of the Tula regional oncology clinic.

All equipment must be new, released no earlier than 2026, with a registration certificate for a medical device. Warranty - at least 24 months, including maintenance. The equipment must be delivered and put into operation no later than December 1, 2026.