Health Report - Using a Smartphone as a Microscope

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VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in English. Microscopes are not always available where they are . Now, for a few dollars and a little work, iPhone can become a microscope. The same is probably of other smartphones as well. Dr. Isaac Bogoch is infectious disease specialist at Toronto General Hospital in Canada. . Bogoch was the lead investigator on a new study the iPhone microscope. It appears in the American Journal Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He and his colleagues had of laboratory images made with smartphones. For the new , he says he used an iPhone 4s because he to own one. But, he says, any smartphone with good camera and a zoom function should work just well. Dr. Bogosh says he and his colleagues bought ball lens online for about $8. They attached the lens to the lens of the iPhone camera using tape. Dr. Bogosh and his colleagues from Massachusetts General and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute tested iPhone on Pemba Island in Tanzania. They looked for parasites in school age children. He says by putting lens close to the slides, his team was able see the parasites they were looking for pretty easily. results were better when the infections were more severe. he thinks that will change when the technology improves. says the smartphone microscope could greatly extend disease control poor, rural areas. Medical workers would also be able e-mail an image to an expert for help in . For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presutti. (Adapted from radio program broadcast 20Mar2013)

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