Accessible microscopy workstation for students and scientists with mobility impairment.
An integrated accessible microscopy workstation was designed and developed to allow persons with mobility impairments to control all aspects of light microscopy with minimal human assistance. This system, named AccessScope, is capable of performing brightfield and fluorescence microscopy, image anal...
| Publicado en: | Assistive Technology Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 34 - 46 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Spring2006
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