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…
A couple of people have mentioned to me that they have trouble getting good looking photomicrographs. I thought I’d write…
The decedent was a 70 year old man with obesity, diabetes mellitus type II, history of heavy tobacco use who…
A young adult male with a long history of poorly controlled type I diabetes mellitus died of diabetic ketoacidosis. The…
This is the case of a young adult male who jumped approximately 150 feet off of a cliff into deep…
One of the things that drew me to pathology was the aesthetics of histology. I find microscopic images fascinating and…
In the past month or so, I’ve had two cases of sarcoidosis, one diagnosed antemortem and one unsuspected. Both died…