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ZEISS Axioscan 7

Imaging Analysis Reporting with Your Ultimate Thin Section Slide Scanner

Embrace digitalization with Axioscan 7, not only to create high-quality digitized petrography data efficiently, but also to gain the advantages of easy data sharing and seamless integration into your geological workflows. With AI-integrated analysis and remote collaboration capabilities, Axioscan 7 empowers geologists and researchers to work together seamlessly from anywhere in the world. Maximize the benefits of modern technology in quantitave petrography and automated analytics.

Rapidly digitize geologic collections
Generate complete petrographic data
Collaborate remotely

Take 60-Seconds to Learn about 5 Key Benefits of the Axioscan 7 for Geology

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Rapidly Digitize Geological Thin Sections Collections

Fully automated acquisition, coupled with ZEISS quality, ensures consistently high image quality, even when processing thousands of samples. Load and run 100 thin sections in minutes with minimal user overhead for set-up, sample naming, and detection.

Composite multichannel acquisition of Berea Sandstone

Generate Complete Petrographic Data

Digitize samples in multiple image modalities using optimized multichannel acquisition to generate a data rich description of your sample. Motorized plane and cross polarization allow you to analyze both pleochroism and birefringence, while circular polarization shows maximum possible birefringence regardless of grain orientation.

_{Composite multichannel acquisition of Berea Sandstone.}

Collaborate Remotely across Borders with Your Virtual Microscope

Upload acquired data from your virtual petrographic microscope to cloud platforms, allowing for global image storage and transfer alongside intuitive collaboration. Digitize entire collections to allow for online and remote teaching. Integrate this data into existing courses to enable virtual field-trips, supporting and augmenting traditional modes of learning.

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Unique Technologies for Automated Petrography

Rapid scanning of up to 100 slides in a single run
Automated scan performance for continuous 24/7 operation
Intuitive scan profiles with easy to use functionalities
Fast switching among brightfield and polarization imaging modes

More Technology Details

Composite multichannel acquisition of Berea Sandstone, showing brightfield acquisition (start of the video), circular polarized (maximum birefringence) acquisition (middle of the video) and the result of phase segmentation / advanced digital analysis (end of the video). Machine learning segmentation is used to classify pore (gold), quartz (light blue), Calcite (dark blue), Micas (red) and opaque minerals (green and yellow).

A Variety of Super-fast Imaging Modes

The innovative motorized stage and image acquisition system allows automatic switching between different brightfield imaging modes to adapt to the different requirements of your applications. All data processing occurs inline to allow for optimized datasets of a manageable size ready for analysis, transfer or distribution once data acquisition finishes.

Improved sample detection and focusing
Circular and linear polarization
Intensely advanced scan speeds in all brightfield imaging modes

Visualize Complex Digitized Petrographic Data

Go beyond the standard petrographic microscope with the ZEN Pol Viewer display to navigate the rich petrographic thin section datasets. It will even automatically synchronize image rotation such that the sample appears exactly as it would in a traditional petrographic light microscope, facilitating the learning process in a teaching environment in the lab and online, and making an immersive petrographic experience.

Applications

ZEISS Axioscan 7 at Work

Plane Polarized Light (PPL)

Plane Polarized Light (PPL)
Cross Polarized Light (XPL)

Cross Polarized Light (XPL)
Circular Polarization

Circular Polarization

Multi-Channel Acquisition

Different forms of polarization illumination can be used to highlight different features. Plane polarized light (PPL) shows overall crystal color, habit and pleochroism. Crossed polarized light (XPL) at multiple orientations allows for extinction angle and birefringence to be assessed. Circular polarization allows for maximum birefringence to be observed regardless of grain orientation. All channels are aligned using powerful computational algorithms during acquisition, making resulting data perfect for subsequent segmentation and analysis.

Automated machine-learning based mineral classification using a single ZEN Intellesis model, applied on two sandstone samples

AI-Based Mineral Classification

Automated machine-learning based mineral classification using a single ZEN Intellesis model, applied here on two sandstone samples.

Both modal mineralogy and pore / grain sizes can be measured and automatically reported.

Full thin-section polarization images. This kyanite-bearing schist has been imaged as part of a digital thin section collection.

PPL-to-XPL

Full thin-section polarization images. This kyanite-bearing schist has been imaged as part of a digital thin section collection. The upper image shows a single PPL orientation, while the lower view shows the capture of the thin section in multiple XPL orientations. This allows a simulated stage rotation to observe and analyze extinction angles, with the full XPL variation over 90°.

Close up of a single biotite grain within a granite sample. Sample has been imaged in multiple PPL orientations in order to observe the full range of pleochrosim as the sample is rotated through 180° relative to the polarizer.

PPL-to-Pleochroism

Close up of a single biotite grain within a granite sample. Sample has been imaged in multiple PPL orientations in order to observe the full range of pleochrosim as the sample is rotated through 180° relative to the polarizer.

Use ZEN Connect to intuitively build correlative projects that start with the data-rich, light microscopy environment from ZEISS Axioscan 7 Geo

Correlative Microscopy

Use ZEN Connect to intuitively build correlative projects that start with the data-rich, light microscopy environment from ZEISS Axioscan 7 Geo. Here additional phase and geochemical information from ZEISS Mineralogic becomes the next step in a petrological investigation. Sample shown is a granulite facies metagabbro from Scouriemore, North West Scotland.

Mineral Phase Analysis

The combination of ZEISS Axioscan 7 and ZEISS AI-based segmentation enables automated analysis across large numbers of samples. Easy machine learning segmentation allows you to label each mineral phase of interest using an intuitive painting interface and allows the software to build a model of the mineralogy across your entire sample.
Mineral Orientation Analysis

The optional PetPAT orientation analysis package turns entire thin sections into powerful mineral orientation maps. These datasets can be used in conjunction with mineral segmentation for detailed studies and used to generate grain size distribution data.

● Use XPL image stacks to calculate the angle at which any given pixel is at maximum or minimum luminance
● Use these data to allow the entire thin section to be mapped for orientation of mineral grains in transmitted light

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