The approach also employs a digital microscope to further home in on the pinpointed cancer cells.

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Also, such lasers can scan a much broader field of view than a laser in a digital microscope.

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The combination of the FAST cytometer and the digital microscope can spot 98% of the traveling cancer cells in a sample.

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The current most accurate detection method, an automated digital microscope on its own, takes ten hours to do the same job.

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Additionally, the WG-3's category defining Digital Microscope mode and six LED lights surrounding the lens barrel enable focusing as close as one centimeter from the subject producing bright, shadow-free macro images.

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And it produces a false positive fewer than three times in a million tries--compared with a hundred false positives in a million tries for an automated digital microscope on its own, the current, most accurate method.

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