Cellphone Microscope, UCLA
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Uploaded by UCLA on Sep 9, 2009
Aydogan Ozcan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute. Follow him around UCLA's campus as he discusses wireless health and demonstrates detecting malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases with a cellphone!
In August 2009, Technology Review magazine recognized Ozcan as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 for his lens free imaging platform and its implications in wireless health.
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guy's turkish?
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I wonder, was a software built for the cellphone for "reading" the images at all? From where I stand, I don't think it looks like one was built; it seems that the cell phone is entirely a "load sample" and "shoot" microscope. Is it a compound microscope?
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Wired had an article in 2008 titled "Turn Your Cellphone Into a High-Powered Scientific Microscope" which he had a short guide included with. His current versions are cheaper and better however.
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He says "assess the health of HIV infected patients" 1:30-1:32 ... not diagnose it. And I didn't hear him say TB.
What he's talking about is doing WBC Diff's in the field, not seeing the virus or doing the chem work... he's not even saying it's a screening method. He's saying that it's powerful enough to diff WBC's and do counts, which IS very important for HIV patients... as well as countless other conditions such as leukemia and lymphoma.
(BTW, I work in a lab)
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Not so. The good professor IMPLIES that one could diagnose tuberculosis, or aids, by just looking at a blood sample: NOT SO! Not with his phone microscope, not with a full fledged microscope. That kind off diagnostic requires much more that just looking at a blood smear. "Determine the strength of the immune system" PLEASE!
(BTW, I am an MD).
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If the cell phone could analyze the image and determine, in the field, if the blood is infected, then it would be MUCH more impressive. But it is indeed "cool"
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This assembly perhaps makes it easier logistically and economically to transport and use microscopes in the field, but I think the hype and PR are giving the public a false impression. But if engineering research in the universities receives more support and perhaps funding, then this PR is very beneficial.
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u look like Marshall at How I met your mother?
WakeMeWithAComment 9 months ago 7
this cellphone microscope is a nice innovation that can be useful in home experiments by students.
agapitoflores001 1 month ago 4