Spring Wise
“It wasn’t long ago that we covered MobiUS’s use of smartphone technology to provide portable ultrasound imaging, and recently we came across a related innovation.
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Tuijn CJ et al, PLoS ONE, 6(12)
Objective
To determine the feasibility of using mobile phones for capturing microscopy images and transferring these to a central database for assessment, feedback and educational purposes.
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Bellina L, Missoni E. Health and Technology, 2011
As previously demonstrated, m-phones can be easily used, without any adapter, to photograph and send images from a microscope. The objective of the current study was to test the appropriateness and educational potential of this mobile diagnosis approach with health workers in limited-resource settings, such as health units in Uganda, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. A total of 61 lab technicians were trained in basic lab skills and in using the m-phone to capture microscopic images and send them to distant Reference Centers for a second opinion. Structured pre-test interviews were used to define parameters such as health workers’ sex and age, duty station, schooling, experience in the laboratory, access to internet and availability to and use of m-phones. Images from the microscope were also uploaded on the available computers and shared on the screen to facilitate group discussions and comparisons with reference images.
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Smith ZJ et al, PloS One, 6(3)
In this paper we report the development of two attachments to a commercial cell phone that transform the phone’s integrated lens and image sensor into a 350x microscope and visible-light spectrometer. The microscope is capable of transmission and polarized microscopy modes and is shown to have 1.5 micron resolution and a usable field-of-view of 150 x 50 with no image processing, and approximately 350 x 350 when post-processing is applied. The spectrometer has a 300 nm bandwidth with a limiting spectral resolution of close to 5 nm. We show applications of the devices to medically relevant problems.
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Matthew Knight, CNN
“Killer apps,” so the technological jargon goes, can transform the fortunes of businesses while improving the lives of the people that use them. But very few can claim to improve the worldwide provision of healthcare.
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Nuria FeSalud, PESCA
“Tras el anuncio de la UCLA del lanzamiento de un microscopio sin lentes que podemos acoplar a un teléfono móvil para realizar estudios anatomo-patológicos basados en telemedicina ahora es el iPhone el que se apunta a la microscopía móvil.
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Christina Hernandez, Smart Planet
“UCLA engineers are touting a lens-free cell phone microscope — a telemedicine innovation lauded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Geographic and the National Science Foundation — as a tool to improve health care from Africa to the United States.
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll
“You may remember when I wrote about how cellphones could be used as microscopes in dermatology and I also mentioned the iMicroscope once.
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A Pakistan News
“World’s smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg, has been developed, which may help improve healthcare in developing countries reported by A Pakistan News.
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Anne Eisenberg, The New York Times
“Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive.
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