Brauchli K, Christen H, Haroske G, Meyer W, Kunze K D, Oberholzer M
Institut für Pathologie, University of Basel, Switzerland.
J Pathol. 2002 Feb;196(2):238-43. doi: 10.1002/path.1036.
This paper reports a fundamentally new concept for internet-based telemicroscopy. By separating a telemicroscopy application into three tasks - microscope control program, external server, and client application - it is possible to establish a telemicroscopy session between two arbitrary end points on the Internet even if both of the end points are secured by firewall (microscope and client application). The advantages of such a distributed system, compared with the classical point-to-point systems, are discussed. The telemicroscopy system is combined with a telepathology database, which is capable of automatically recording telemicroscopy sessions, allowing a convenient combination of interactive remote microscopy and store and forward telepathology. In addition to remote primary diagnosis, it is easily possible to discuss difficult cases within dedicated user groups, no matter whether images originate from a telemicroscopy session, or are manually entered into the database.
本文报道了一种基于互联网的远程显微镜的全新概念。通过将远程显微镜应用程序分为三个任务——显微镜控制程序、外部服务器和客户端应用程序——即使两个端点（显微镜和客户端应用程序）都受到防火墙保护，也能够在互联网上的任意两个端点之间建立远程显微镜会话。文中讨论了这种分布式系统相较于传统点对点系统的优势。该远程显微镜系统与一个远程病理学数据库相结合，该数据库能够自动记录远程显微镜会话，从而实现交互式远程显微镜与存储转发远程病理学的便捷结合。除了远程初步诊断外，还能够方便地在特定用户群体中讨论疑难病例，无论图像是来自远程显微镜会话，还是手动输入数据库的。
