The image of an analysis sample that doctors used to trace cancer cells is clear, precise and it can save lives. And it was made with an Olympus E-330 photo camera.
It’s very remarkable to use a photo camera that is dedicated to personal use to diagnose a disease. The people that managed to do this are biomedical engineers from an university in the United States. And, from what it seams, the process can easily be reproduced.
The team of doctors captured the image of the cells with the help of an fiber optics fascicle attached to an Olympus E-330 Photo camera. Then they applied a fluorescent colorant that determined the assembly of cores from the cells to simply shine when it was illuminated with the help of the fiber optics fascicle.
Cancer and pre cancer cells are usually pretty deformed and they can be seen even on the screen of a LCD camera.
What’s the next step? Well, the implementation of a software application that might help general doctors to identify cancer calls, without asking the help of oncology doctors.
Still, what makes this research really remarkable is the fact that it can be repeated again, at very low costs.
