Image transmitted to another handphone via WhatsApp. Olympus Air attached to macro lens and mounted on copy stand for macro photography. This is the Gram stain image captured on the Olympus Air and transmitted directly to another handphone (in this case via WhatsApp). How the set-up looks like on the microscope. The handphone is the LCD screen for the Olympus Air.
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It is wirelessly coupled to the handphone by bluetooth and wifi.
It therefore combines the power and flexibility of a proper camera with the connectivity and ease of use of a handphone.Ĭlose-up of the Olympus Air mounted on a microscope-camera adapter tube. The Olympus Air is a new concept camera which provides a 16-megapixel micro four-thirds sensor which can be coupled wirelessly to your handphone. However they are not capable of macro photography, and while various adapters exist for coupling smart phones to microscopes, these are cumbersome to use. Modern smart phones with cameras make the rapid transmission of images simple. However the real-time transmission of these images has been impractical because the image has to be downloaded onto a computer and distributed by a file-sharing system or email. Would a clinician form a better mental picture of the infection he is managing if he saw the morphology of the bacteria growing in the blood culture? Or would she be more confident to withhold antibiotics if she saw how many epithelial cells were in the sputum culture?Ĭameras with macro lenses and microscopes with attached cameras have long been used by diagnostic microbiology labs to document images of microbes for training and educational purposes. Why do doctors still like to see the x-ray image or CT scan of their patients for themselves even though they will receive a formal report from the radiologist? Real-time Transmission of Microbiology Images using Olympus Air
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