Low-cost mobile phone microscopy with a reversed mobile phone camera lens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Switz, Neil A ^a   D'Ambrosio, Michael V ^a   Fletcher, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BLOOD SMEAR; CAMERA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; ERYTHROCYTE; FECES ANALYSIS; HELMINTH; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEUKOCYTE; MICROSCOPY; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SOIL; ANIMAL; BLOOD CELL; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FECES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; CELL PHONES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FECES; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; LENSES; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84901293289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095330     Document Type: Article

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