[Leica] Playing around with my Microscope again

[Don Dory]

No sycle cell there.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 5:22 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Yesterday a friend said he wondered what blood would look like under the
> microscope.  He was interested in diabetes but I told him it would look
> the same as normal blood (I think).  I do not have any stains at home,
> but I did say I had some blood for a ways back when it was not deemed a
> hazard to do so.  So, in about 1979 there was an outbreak of
> mononucleosis in our small town (Odessa, WA).  Even the CDC got
> involved.  One of my fellow teachers was diagnosed, so I stabbed his
> finger and made a few smears.  I still have one so I took a few shots
> with my new scope.  These are 1000x Oil Immersion.  A few of what I
> think are monocytes (Vipul can possibly confirm or deny).  Both are 2 or
> 3 image stacks.  View large if you can.
>
> Blood - Mononucleosis - Zeiss - 3290-Edit- (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Blood+-+Mononucleosis+-+Zeiss+-+3290-Edit-.jpg.html
> >
>
> The second one was run through Topaz Sharpen AI just to see what would
> happen.  Main subject looks about the same but I sure had a bunch more
> artifacts to touch up.
>
> Blood - Mononucleosis - Zeiss - 3282-Edit--Edit-Edit (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Blood+-+Mononucleosis+-+Zeiss+-+3282-Edit--Edit-Edit.jpg.html
> >
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Aram
>
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