Computer hardware, namely, computers, personal computers, color monitors, integrated services digital network audio-video codec, and asynchronous transfer mode audio-video codec; computer software for medical teleconferencing, namely initiating and closing the conference between two or more remote sites; computer software for high-resolution, monochromatic image management, namely, selecting images, disseminating images to other sites, and allowing users to adjust the images while maintaining synchronized image displays at all sites; computer software for motion-video color image management, namely, allowing for a minimum of eight channels of video transmission, audio control, remote control and synchronization to enable a remote site to operate an instrument, while allowing all remaining sites to view the changes introduced by the remote site; computer software for measuring monochromatic images, namely, contouring software for calculating areas of images; computer software for operating a shared cursor service; computer software for controlling gloves with electronic sensors to be used with 3-dimensional ultrasound images; computer software allowing for integration of any of the following medical imaging equipment into the teleconferencing system, namely, retinal cameras, microscopes with color video camera and remote-control stage, focusing and turret operation, computed tomography apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging units, ultrasound and plain film units, mammography units, radio-isotope imaging units, medical diagnostic video devices, namely, ophthalmoscopes, otoscopes, dermascopes, rhinolaryngoscopes, endoscopes, echocardiography units, cardiac catheterization imaging units, video fluoroscopes, and abdominal ultrasound apparatus, all of the aforementioned for enabling remote medical consultation by physicians and medical research centers via high-speed connection-oriented communication technology, namely, asynchronous transfer mode and integrated services digital network transmission networks