Patent ID: 8786695

Claim:
A telemicroscopy apparatus for making a wireless communications device into a microscope, the apparatus comprising: a microscope housing removably attachable to a portable, hand-held cellular or other wireless communications device, said communications device having a camera with a window, a camera lens, and image sensor; and a microscope lens system having high numerical aperture optics mounted to the microscope housing and comprising a microscope lens configured to be aligned with said camera lens when the microscope housing is attached to the communications device and an eyepiece lens configured to be positioned between the microscope lens and the camera lens and to couple the high numerical aperture optics of the microscope lens system with the camera lens so that the microscope lens and the camera lens work in combination; wherein said microscope lens system has a collection numerical aperture (NA) of at least approximately 0.01 and a magnification (M) of at least about 1.