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New principal investigators, faculty startup packages, and shared research facilities

Build a research imaging lab around the work you actually do.

Plan sample types, required outputs, shared users, available equipment, and purchasing deadlines together. Start with a flexible system and add dedicated capability only where it helps.

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Macroscopic Solutions imaging workstation installed with Dr. Sangtae Kim’s research team at Sungshin Women’s University in South Korea
Sungshin Women’s University · South Korea · Dr. Sangtae Kim

Choose your next step

Start with what you need to see—not the equipment.

Answer the practical questions that apply to your work. Then choose an imaging system, an imaging-service project, or a complete workflow that fits.

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What will the lab image most often?
Macropod PRO 3D is the flexible starting platform for work from roughly 4 µm detail through specimens about 4 cm—and larger when the setup requires it. The Micro Kit extends objective-based work at higher magnification.
Will the lab image linear core, prepared slides, broad trays, or general specimens?
CoreScan and MicroCoreScan are built for long linear core. Macropod Petrographic is built for transmitted and polarized thin-section and slide imaging. Macropod and Micro Kit can also image slides for reflected-light macro or micro work, while MacroBox supports broad trays, drawers, and large subjects.
What result must the system produce repeatedly?
Focus-stacked image sets, stitched core records, transmitted or cross-polarized slide images, 3D models, and dimensional measurements each require a different combination of motion, lighting, optics, and software.
What information helps us configure the right system?
We begin with the samples, required images or models, anticipated workload, available space, and equipment already in the lab. Those details determine the appropriate Macropod configuration, optics, lighting, software, and training support; there is no one fixed checklist for every lab.

Why Macroscopic Solutions

A scientific imaging workflow—not just a camera or microscope.

Since 2013, Macroscopic Solutions has helped research, public-sector, and technical teams turn difficult samples into useful visual records. We connect the system, optics, lighting, software, training, and service work around the result you need.

  • See the whole picture and the fine detail.Move from context to the features that matter without losing the relationship between them.
  • Make the useful view repeatable.Match the sample, scale, lighting, motion, and output to a documented imaging workflow.
  • Get practical help before and after purchase.Use application guidance, training, software support, and imaging services when equipment is not the immediate answer.

Prefer finished imagery to an equipment purchase?

Pilot the first project before committing the startup budget.

Send representative samples for focus-stacked, microscopic, core, or 3D imaging. The finished results address the immediate project and clarify the equipment, software, and training an internal lab needs.

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Specimen and focus-stacked imaging Slides and thin-section imaging Drill-core and slab imaging Tree-core and linear sample imaging Scientific 3D model production

Evidence in practice

See shared research imaging in practice.

Scientific imaging equipment setup at Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for Big Bee work
Shared-facility setup

Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and Big Bee

Big Bee equipment setup shows why shared users need repeatable capture and documented protocols.

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Macroscopic Solutions training connected to Parasite Tracker at the Field Museum
Training and continuity

Field Museum and Parasite Tracker workshop

Collection-scale work puts training, file consistency, and service continuity in the equipment plan.

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Research, purchasing, and implementation

Resources for your decision.

Request a new-lab budgetary quote

Open a form already labeled for startup funding, system scope, lead time, installation, training, acceptance, and warranty planning.

Request the quote Plan a shared imaging facility

Tell us about users, sample range, throughput, training, data handling, service continuity, and future expansion.

Discuss the facility Vendor setup and institutional purchasing

Start university or company vendor onboarding, request purchasing documents, and coordinate quotations, freight, and receiving.

Start vendor setup Government procurement

Review the government-contracting page for acquisition details, capability information, and quote support.

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