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Author: | E. Fisher | |
Reviewer(s): | W. Mills, TOP Team Tethys | |
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Management Approval (Name, Title, Date): | W. Mills (Lab Officer) | |
Audience: | Scientists, Technicians | |
Previous Versions: | 1/22/2014, 8/15/2013 | |
Current version: | V375 | V371T | July 2017 | |
Revised: | T. Cobb, L. Crowder, C. Peng | |
Domain: | ||
System: | Section Half Image Logger | |
Keywords: | Image, Section Half |
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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??
By default the instrument is set for imaging the archive half and will not allow you to scan a working label. If you want to take a picture of a working half you need to go to the MANUAL tag and select W (working) into the Section Half label (See the picture bellow). Once you have selected the W (working), you will not be able to scan an archive half; in order to do that you need to go back into the MANUAL tag and re-select A (archive).
If a whole round sample was taken (IW or MBIO), place whole round spacer where this sample was taken.
Click 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.
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