The development of precision testing for disease diagnosis has advanced medicine by specifically matching patients with drugs to treat specific diseases. High-quality diagnostics start with high-quality tissue specimens. The development and optimization of tissue handling and processing have lagged behind bioassay development. Ultrasound time-of-flight (TOF) technology has been successfully used to monitor the critical processing step of tissue fixation with formalin. In this study, we expand the use of this technology to monitor tissue dehydration and clearing by analyzing TOF signals from 270 different specimens, representing 13 different tissue types obtained through surgical resections. We determined the time constant τ for each tissue type for the following tissue processing solvents: 70% ethanol, 90% ethanol, 100% ethanol, and xylene. The TOF signals were correlated with tissue morphology to ensure that high-quality tissue was produced. Tissues can be grouped into those exhibiting fast and slow reagent diffusion. We monitored incomplete dehydration of tissue by skipping a key processing step, dehydration in absolute ethanol, and then correlated the τ with poor histomorphology, demonstrating that the technique can detect significant processing errors. Ultrasound TOF technology can therefore be used to monitor all phases of tissue processing cycle and yields an important preanalytical quality metric.

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