PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - V Della Mea AU - N Bortolotti AU - C A Beltrami TI - eSlide suite: an open source software system for whole slide imaging AID - 10.1136/jcp.2008.057737 DP - 2009 Aug 01 TA - Journal of Clinical Pathology PG - 749--751 VI - 62 IP - 8 4099 - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/62/8/749.short 4100 - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/62/8/749.full SO - J Clin Pathol2009 Aug 01; 62 AB - This short report briefly describes the principles underlying the telepathology technique known as whole slide imaging, and the design and implementation of a system for acquisition and visualisation of digital slides. The developed system, including an acquisition module and a visualisation module, is available as an open source on the Internet, together with sample acquired slides.