MBF partners with Apollo Telemedicine to provide virtual slide technology to physicians and healthcare specialists

Contact: Mark Newburger
Apollo Telemedicine, Inc.
7700 Leesburg Pike
Suite 209
Falls Church, VA 22043
Phone 703.288.1474
Fax 703.288.1479

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (March 1, 2004) –- Apollo Telemedicine, Inc., now offers physicians and healthcare specialists access to high-resolution virtual slides, thanks to its new partnership with MicroBrightField, Inc., the market leader in advanced digital microscopy products.

The leading provider of telediagnostic systems for pathology, Apollo Telemedicine develops and markets clinically-proven, patented imaging solutions that enable healthcare providers to make real-time medical diagnoses, saving time, money and lives. Its systems are being used in federal and private hospitals, laboratories and teaching institutions domestically and abroad. The Apollo web enabled virtual slide is available for demonstration at www.apollotelemedicine.com.

Mark J. Newburger, Apollo CEO said, “Our partnership with MicroBrightField allows us to enhance our solution offerings to our customers so that they can now include high-resolution virtual slides for printing, archiving and educational use. The MicroBrightField solution operates on the same microscope platform as our robotic telepathology system, eliminating the need for a separate acquisition device.”

MicroBrightField, Inc. (MBF), has created an innovative solution to the challenges of traditional and digital microscopy with their Virtual Slice technology. This technology integrates with MBF’s other programs, to capture morphological information of complete biological specimens mounted on glass slides, digitizes the information, and then delivers it over the Web. This system allows physicians and healthcare specialists to collect images of complete microscopic specimens at the highest magnification of a light microscope and stitch these images together into a single large image, or a “virtual slide.”

Jack Glaser, MicroBrightField CEO said, “The synergy of MicroBrightField and Apollo Telemedicine creates new opportunities for the integration of microscopy technology that will revolutionize the way pathologists work with microscopes. Our products will provide significant and exciting new solutions in the field telepathology.”

About Apollo Telemedicine, Inc. Founded in 1993, Apollo Telemedicine, Inc., is a privately held company headquartered in Falls Church, Va., which develops and markets patented telepathology and pathology imaging solutions. In 2003, Apollo launched ASAP Imaging, a TCP/IP based telediagnostic tool, which enables healthcare professionals to provide diagnostic services via the internet or intranet when and where these services are needed. For more information, please go to ApolloTelemedicine.com

About MicroBrightField, Inc.

MicroBrightField was founded in 1987 to develop powerful and affordable neuroanatomical imaging software for the research community. Neurolucida is the product of over 30 years of pioneering experience in neuroimaging. Today, the company’s flagship product, Neurolucida, is the most widely used Neuron Tracing and Brain Mapping system in research laboratories throughout the world.

Stereo Investigator has also become the most widely used design based stereology system.

The company co-founder developed the first computer microscope in 1964 and the Image Combining Computer Microscope in 1980. MicroBrightField’s research team has won a reputation for developing systems that continue to evolve to meet research demands in the constantly advancing fields of computer microscopy.