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Cilika–Portable Digital Inverted Microscope

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  The invention of microscopes nearly a century ago opened up a new branch of science, microbiology. This invention led scientists to observe, examine and work with tiny organisms. So began a new era in healthcare, agriculture, and other related industries, where microscopes are mandatory. For instance, a standard blood test to diagnose blood groups or RBC count prescribed by doctors requires microscopes. The samples collected from the patients at the collection centres are transported to tier-1 cities for microscopic analysis. Transportation is a disadvantage as it increases the chance of sample degradation and cost and delays the treatment.  Microscopes play a vital role in education as well. Most of the colleges and private education sector can procure binocular microscopes. Higher-end, high-cost research-grade microscopes with advanced features are not feasible for all educational institutions. Considering that a practical laboratory session is very crowded, time is limite...

Why Digital Microscopy?

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A digital microscope is a modern microscope that lacks an eyepiece, an immense difference from the traditional optical microscope. They have a digital camera which is the detector and the image output device. The display of the image is done on a computer screen or monitor, defining the microscope’s digital scope. This microscope’s light source is an inbuilt LED-source as compared to the optical microscope whose light source is accessed from outside the microscope through an eyepiece. Therefore, in the digital microscope, human optics access is eliminated since the entire apparatus has an image monitoring system. There are variants of the digital Microscope including the USB digitalized microscopes which are very expensively industrialized digital microscopes, such as the Kohler illumination and the Phase-contrast Illumination, with installed webcams and macro lens. The first Digital Microscope was manufactured in 1986 in Tokyo, Japan which constituted a control box and a lens the was ...