For this second installment, I’m going to discuss getting started. The first thing you need to decide is what kind…
One of the more bizarre features of being a forensic pathologist is that we have traditionally been civil servants. This…
This case is of a middle-aged man with moderate intellectual challenges who drowned while swimming in a lake. Here’s a…
As I mentioned before, anisotropic illumination occurs when the bulb does not make the background uniformly white (or whatever color…
Image acquisition: The slide: Clean the slide. Really. When we look through the scope, we unconsciously edit out dust and…
The setup: The first thing is to acquire the best image you can before you do any postprocessing. It’s…
A couple of people have mentioned to me that they have trouble getting good looking photomicrographs. I thought I’d write…
A 72-year old man suffered a car crash and died. At autopsy, he was noted to have a 4 cm…
Here is a comparison in how small penetrating arteries in the cerebellum differ between normotensive and hypertensive decedents. First here…
This is a case of a man shot multiple times. On external examination, one of the wounds looked suspiciously like…