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Diagnostic Pathology BioMed Central Research Open Access The diagnostic path, a useful visualisation tool in virtual microscopy Thomas Schrader*, Sonja Niepage, Thomas Leuthold, Kai Saeger, Karsten Schluns, Peter Hufnagl, Klaus Kayser and Manfred Dietel Address: Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Charité, Berlin, Germany Email: Thomas Schrader* - thomas.schrader@; Sonja Nie sonja.niepage@charite.de; Thomas Leuthold - thomas.leuthold@charite.de; Kai Saeger - kai.saeger@vmscope.de; Karsten Schluns - karsten.schluens@charite.de; Peter Hufnagl - peter.hufnagl@charite.de; Klaus Kayser - klaus.kayser@charite.de; Manfred Dietel - manfred.dietel@charite.de * Corresponding author Published: 08 November 2006 Received: 20 March 2006 Accepted: 08 November 2006 Diagnostic Pathology 2006, 1:40 doi:10.1186/1746-1596-1-40 This article is available from: /content/1/1/40 © 2006 Schrader et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Virtual Microscopy based on completely digitalised histological slide. Concerning this digitalisation many new features in mircoscopy can be processed by the computer. New applications are possible or old, well known techniques of image analyses can be adapted for routine use. Aims: A so called diagnostic path observes in the way of a profession