chapter 1 The Coming Age of Virtual Microscopy: Current Technologies and Their Applications / chapter 2 Reinvention of Light Microscopy: Array Microscopy and Ultrarapidly Scanned Virtual Slides for Diagnostic Pathology and Medical Education / chapter 3 A Fully Integrated Virtual Microscopy System for Analysis and Discovery / chapter 4 The MicroBrightField Virtual Slice System / chapter 5 Development of a Virtual Telemicroscope / chapter 6 The Trestle Digital Backbone™. Jack Zeineh -- chapter 7 MicroScreen / chapter 8 The Use of Microscopic Images in Medical Education -- chapter 9 Virtual Slides for Teaching Histology and Pathology / chapter 10 The Preparation and Use of Virtual Slides for Teaching Medical Histology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine / chapter 11 WebMic, a Virtual Microscope for Learning Histology: Results of Implementation in a Medical Histology Course / chapter 12 Next-Generation Teaching Systems Using Virtual Slides / chapter 13 Virtual Slide as a Tool for Education, Training, and Diagnosis -- chapter 14 Speed, Resolution, Focus, and Depth of field in Clinical Whole Slide Imaging Applications / chapter 15 Clinical Slide Digitization: Whole Slide Imaging in Clinical Practice Experience from the University of Pittsburgh / chapter 16 Virtual Microscopy and Automated Diagnosis / chapter 17 Virtual Slides: The AFIP Experience / chapter 18 Telepathology in Europe / chapter 19 A Diagnostic Virtual Microscope System for Whole Slide Robotic Imaging: The Value of Virtual Slides for the Practice of Pathology / chapter 20 Enhancing the Information Content of Digitally Archived Tissue Samples / chapter 21 Development of a Whole Slide Image Archive / chapter 22 Virtual Slides and Neuroanatomy: Atlases and Data Sharing