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Click the SHIL-IMS icon on the desktop and wait for the program to Initialize. The process will include initializing the camera and moving the track into the "Home" position.
Click the START button.
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The Sample Information screen will appear.
Make sure that you have set the images attributes in the panel on the left side:
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Scan section (half) barcode label, make sure cursor is in the SCAN box.
No scanner or label? Select the tab marked LIMS and select you section's ID from the list boxes or use the MANUAL tab and enter the values by hand (not recommended).
Confirm Label, LIMS and physical length are within 2 cm of each other. If not, ask WHY?
Maybe there was some section expansion, whole round sample taken, or a mistake??
If a whole round sample was taken (IW or MBIO), place whole round spacer where this sample was taken.
Click Take a Picture button to start
The following screen appear
or touch the TAKE A PICTURE button to start imaging the section. 
During the imaging process the Image DAQ screen will display. If everything is going right, there is nothing for you to do. Only use the ABORT to stop the imaging process for non-emergencies. If a body part has been caught in the track and you face imminent personal injury, use the EMERGENCY STOP button just above the track.
The window at the top shows the current image frame and the construction of the full image, and the graph at the bottom displays the RGB data taken from a stripe down the middle of the image.
If the DROP LINES indicator is lit (orange), notify the technical staff. The Acquisition Error indicator usually lights just at the end of the image and that’s OK but if it lights before then, we have a problem. Again, notify the technical staff.
Crop and Save
When the scanning imaging process is done, a preview image appears, if necessary, draw/adjust crop line (green) to cover full section without the ruler.
When satisfied with the crop box location, click CROP and Save Image
The the lights will go off and the track will return to the start position, so stand back.
The Image CROP widow will open and you will have some work to do.
Check the position of the GREEN crop lines by clicking the Show Top and then Show Bottom buttons. If you used the RED stops and the crop parameters have been set correctly, then the image should be perfectly boxed by the GREEN lines. If not, then use the mouse (or finger) and touch the GREEN line or corner and drag the lines into position. The goal is to create an image of just the core as one of three images that will be created (the other images are un-cropped). The cropped image is used in LimSpeak and for printing the VCD scratch sheets.
When happy with the crop box location, click/touch CROP Image. The display will change to show the cropped image and the Save Image button will be enabled. 
Click Save Image and you are finished! The Sample Information window will be displayed to repeat the process for the next section. 
To rescan, click Discard Image and confirm when prompted to discard.
If you have enabled the printing of the VCD forms, then the Create VCD Scratch toggle switch will appear and you can use this to temporarily halt the printing of the forms. To disable the VCD forms from printing, you'll need to ask the technical staff.
Printing VCD forms?
When you click Save Image a progress window opens. The application is saving the three images, and also opening Excel and copying the image into an Excel template that is saved and printed. You'll see the Excel icon light up in the Window' task bar and a notice will appear indicating that the VCD has been sent to the printer.
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- On the desktop click the MUT icon on the bottom task bar.
- The following will appear:
3. Check Automatic Upload in the lower right hand corner and then click the minimize window and MUT will run in background.
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