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Medical technology has recently got a shot in the arm with a new scientific technological advancement in machinery that allows lab technicians and physicians to look under the microscope and take a video or still photo at that same time, in real time. Digital micro-imaging system contains a high-powered camera and a high-powered microscope so that doctors can receive twice the information on cultures and samples of blood and tissue.

What the camera does is take same time or real time photographs so that the microscope can help the technician study them. Something like skin cancer which is forever changing at a fast pace is a good candidate for this type of technological machinery. By enlarging a lesion ten or even 1000 times bigger, a technician could see the active cells and take a picture of the most disturbing part of what they see for the doctor to view for themselves. The camera and microscope combination will also take down the number of painful biopsies performed each year on patients by allowing a camera to take a closer look.

A user-friendly software package will accompany each microscope, camera combination machine. This software is simple to download on the nearest computer or laptop that will be helping with all the procedures and collecting the data from the machinery. This type of combination tool is a good teaching device for hospitals, clinics and specialty doctors offices for new technology is always a good way to introduce new technicians to a concept.

The photograph that is taken when the camera is positioned near the liaison, or whatever the problem is on the patient, it will be automatically run through the software and diagnosed along with what the technician sees and comes up with. This advanced technology is indispensable for patients because they have a computer and a person working on their problems. This photo could also be sent to coworkers in order to get their opinion of the situation or be used on a big screen as a teaching instrument.

There is a wide range of micro-scoping pictures available in many different brands. Depending on which brand a hospital or laboratory purchases, some of the cameras that can be mounted onto the microscopes offer a search process of upwards of 37 images per second with a resolution of 640 x 512 pixels, making it a very clear image. There are also several different applications besides the skin cancer that this type of duel lab equipment would work for. A urinalysis is another example of what a combination camera and microscope could help with. Looking for bacteria or blood cells in an individual’s urine would be easier with the camera style microscope.

These double duty machines of advanced technology will support a time-lapse short movie or video of what the dual machine is photographing, similar to a regular camera. This type of moving picture is invaluable to a physician in their diagnosis and a possible cure. What many doctors are hoping for is to be able to predict where a disease might spread before it has a chance to if the treatments to stop it is not working properly in some case.

Another good feature about these microscope camera combos is that they lesson the margin for human error. When a camera is either recording or snapping photographs of a disease progression or cell mutation, then there is always a back up for the human eye. Some of the moving specimens can be photographed or filmed moving up to 15 frames per second. The human eye can not focus that quickly and still process what it sees.

Doctors of all specialties are now using the digital in vivo imaging system to take a closer look at what they might be missing. They are using these technological advanced machines on children and older adults and everyone in between to make sure their diagnosis is exactly what they think it should be. Then treatments can begin to help save the person from the disease and months or longer of terrible pain.

The innovations in science are constantly progressing - from the brand new digital imaging system to the in vivo technology, businesses are constantly benefiting from this new renaissance!