An assistant professor of electrical engineering and a member of University of California’s NanoSystems Institute, Aydogan Ozcan, has designed a novel way to let people use their cellphones as microscopes to screen diseases. The DIY project is result of a software and $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, which Ozcan has used to make this portable device that is handled entirely by software, electronics and holograms.
Ozcan’s device is a very inexpensive and easy-to-use way to capture biological images in way of screening diseases and then of sending this collected information wirelessly to hospitals for reference. The best part about this cell imaging and diagnostic platform is the fact that the device does away with the lens on the microscope, and the imaging here is done electronically. This in unification with the LEDs used for magnification creates hologram of the sample out of which microscopic images are formed.
Via: New York Times/Gizmodo
