title: Anatomic pathology image capture using a consumer-type digital camera.
abstract: Low-cost, high-quality consumer-type digital cameras are now on the market. They can be used for taking photomicrographs by simply placing the camera over the eyepiece of a conventional light microscope and pressing a button. Similar techniques can be used for capturing digital images through various types of viewing instruments. The quality of the digital images obtained is surprisingly high. With this low-cost approach, the uses of digital imaging in the author's anatomic pathology department have widely expanded.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Tse
mesh_terms: D000703:Analog-Digital Conversion; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010336:Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D010784:Photomicrography / Q000379:methods*