How to choose a microscope for telepathology?
The image quality and level of interactivity is set by the quality of the camera and its acquisition hardware, by the processor speed of the host computer, and by the telecommunication protocol. The optical quality of even a modest laboratory microscope is likely to be degraded by one or more of these. Thus the purchaser of a telepathology system should first pay particular attention to the quality of the image capture and transmission system.
