This is a case that gave me a little pause. This not-quite-a-year-old infant was found dead at home. The story…
A week-old infant was brought in with a history of possible unsafe sleeping conditions. At autopsy, the decedent was noted…
Here’s an interesting case, I think, of determining entrance and exit. In fact, it’s pretty trivial because of soot deposition,…
This is from a 60 year old woman who died of a drug overdose. At autopsy her thyroid was a…
This case is of a middle-aged man with moderate intellectual challenges who drowned while swimming in a lake. Here’s a…
This is the kidney from an older woman who died of sepsis. It is a classic renal stone that has…
Now that you have a nice flat image after dividing by the brightfield image, you may see that the white…
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…