Gerard Coté, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems. Credit: Texas A&M University
It could significantly improve malaria diagnoses, Rx in developing countries that often lack the resources to address the life-threatening disease. The add-on device, which is similar in look and feel to a protective phone case, uses a smart phone’s camera features to produce high-resolution images of objects 10X smaller than the thickness of a human hair, says Prof Gerard Coté who developed the mobile-optical-polarization imaging device (MOPID).
MOPID is capable of accepting a small cartridge containing a patient’s blood-smear sample, which is then imaged using polarized light in order to detect ...
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