Microscopy Diseases in Phone Detector

Microscopy Diseases in Phone Detector - Telephone modification called CellScope can capture and send images via telephone lines, images of high-resolution medical samples. These images are expected to improve as technology advances.

Researchers in the laboratory of cellular mechanics at the University of California - Berkeley have developed a diagnostic-quality microscope that uses smart phone Apple iPhone. But the technology will soon be used with other phones that use the Android system and other operating systems.

According to researcher Eva Schmid, CellScope camera equipped with a high quality magnifying optics and a large touch screen, making the image quality can rival a good laboratory microscope. The images can be enlarged and shown instantly on the screen can be enlarged or photographed and recorded in the form of video or posted to a blog, website or Facebook.

Schmid said the University of California at Berkeley lab is developing ways to use optical lenses last smart phone to help diagnose diseases in different parts of the world where medical resources are limited.

People in the village can take pictures with CellScope drop of blood and then sent him to the hospital so the doctor can see the image, diagnose and send information back to the patient. Everything is done via mobile phone.

The application being developed is the use of photographs of high-quality telephone to analyze sputum samples of TB patients. Schmid said the National Institutes of Health and the Bill Gates Foundation to fund projects that use CellScopes to detect Loa Loa - microscopic worms - which is usually called worms eye, which infects about 10 million people worldwide.

Schmid is also involved in a project that uses enhanced optical smart phone to make school students investigate their environment in a fun and detailed.

Schmid added a traditional microscope learning opportunities can be used separately as only one student only. But the touch screen CellScope change that. Some people can see the picture at the same time and teachers can more quickly help focus attention and discuss what is happening in the picture then. Schmid explained that CellScope developments recently in the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco.