Chandigarh, August 13

To address the large requirement in the field of medical diagnosis, the Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) has developed a portable microscope that can acquire multiple fields of views to create a bigger perspective of the sample under study.

According to a press statement, the technology for this instrument, ‘Portable Multi-View Smart Microscope’, was transferred to a Telangana-based private firm for commercial production and marketing.

Prof RK Sinha, CSIO Director, said: “Though conventional microscopes were widely available and being used by medical experts for various diagnostic decisions, such microscopes have a limited field of view and the technicians have to move the sample to get multiple fields of view before doing any subjective evaluation.” Digital slide scanners are available to acquire the whole slide image of the sample under study, he said. Dr Suman Tewari, the developer of technology, said the system has also embedded image analytics software for blood cell classification, which is deployed with the system as a toolbox. — TNS