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DIGITIZATION OF RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSITIC MICROSCOPIC STAINED SLIDES FOR REMOTE CONSULTANCY

21 Feb, 2023by sayeboah

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES (PATHOLOGY UNIT)

SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

 

DIGITIZATION OF RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSITIC MICROSCOPIC STAINED SLIDES FOR REMOTE CONSULTANCY

Research and diagnostic laboratory methods require the requisite samples to be applied onto slides and stained appropriately for examination. There are instances where these slides are required to be re-viewed by other expects across the globe to share opinions on the slides. This almost always require the slides to be transported to various places around the globe by the courier system. Efficient as the courier system may be, they have several bottle necks that can delay the outcome of research or diagnosis that require external review of their slides. Most prominent of them are:

  1. Breakages due to inappropriate handling,
  2. Delays by courier system due to flight cancellations,
  3. Customs officers’ failure to accept the urgency of the research and need for diagnosis
  4. The delays at customs who are interested in determining whether the slides could be a conduit for the spread of infectious diseases to their countries.

*The solution to these problems is to send slides without slides.

Spotlab Technology Company based in Madrid, Spain are exhibiting two of their latest digital equipment (AdaptaSpot and MicraSpot) in the Pathology Unit of the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences in the School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences.

AdaptaSpot is a sample digitizer for traditional optical microscopes that allows you to couple a smartphone to any microscope to digitize individual fields from a sample for remote

analysis in a telemedicine platform.

 

MicraSpot is a portable, smartphone-controlled, single-sample scanner that makes it possible to digitize and send samples at any time and from anywhere in a telemedicine platform where specialists can analyze them.

 

ADAPTASPOT                                                               MICRASPOT

                                                       

Two engineers are training our staff on how to operate the two machines and by the kind courtesy of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA, the two equipment will be donated to the Department of Medical Laboratory Science and the School of Biomedical and Allied Health Science to be used for research and diagnosis that require external consultations.