Title: Mobile cell-phones (M-phones) in telemicroscopy : increasing connectivity of isolated laboratories

Authors: Bellina, Livia and Missoni, Eduardo

Place: [London]

Publisher: BioMed central

Year: 2009

Journal: Diagnostic pathology

Volume: Vol. 4, No. 19

PAGE: --

Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: telephone, mobile telecommunication services, scientific apparatus and instruments, medical applications

Abstract: A description of an application with which images can be taken approaching the lens of the mobile cell phone camera to the ocular of common optical microscopes. Images are subsequently sent via Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) to distant reference centres for tele-diagnosis.

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706795/pdf/1746-1596-4-19.pdf

Document type: E-article