Features
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Benefits |
Available
in Imaris 4 |
Available
in
Imaris Personal
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| Classic
Views: Experience how Bitplane made its standard views
dynamic! |
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Slicer,
Gallery, Multi plane sectioning for extended focus |
Detail
inspection of quality of image. Unique is Bitplane's
easy and consistent way for zooming and panning. |
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| Standard
fixed-view shadow and maximum intensity projections. |
Get
a quick and high-quality view onto your images without
the need to adust parameters. |
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| Full
3D Viewer |
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|
real-time
3D preview visualization |
Fully
interactive instant, high-quality view. This view
explores the full power of your graphics processor.
The
term preview is an understatement. The image is rendered
in full resolution and the quality is excellent; good
for publications.
The
real-time renderer supports both blending and maximum-intensity
projection views.
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| multiple
processor support for high-quality rendering by ray
tracing |
Ray
tracing provides arbitrary 3D views with shadows. Controls
for contrast/brightness and transparency settings for
each channel. |
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| maximum
intensity projection (MIP) |
In
this mode all the bright voxels can be seen. It gives
a complete see-through view. Most impressive with real-time
rotations. |
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| arbitrary
lighting and shadowing |
Shadows
give our eyes good hints of 3D structures. |
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| stereo
views (red/cyan or LCD glasses) |
Imprssive
views. The observer can go "into" the dataset. |
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| material
property editor |
User
can change transparency of channels. One can see structures
inside other structures. |
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| animation
editor producing MPEG, AVI output |
User
can store animations in a format which can be interchanged
with people that do not have access to Imaris. |
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| Image
Processing, Transformations |
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baseline,
gamma, thresholding, noice removal, flip, rotation
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Image
processing functions are required to prepare images
for high-quality rendering.
Baseline
removes "fog". Gauss makes structures "smoother" and
less rough.
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| resampling
(change resolution) |
User
can speed up processing by making image smaller. Need
for computer resources is also greatly reduced. |
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| combine
channels |
Example
of application: User can visualize image before and
after deconvolution in one Imaris view by loading the
two images into two channels. |
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| Image
Loader |
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Drag
and Drop |
Easiest
way to load image: just drag the image file into any
viewer. Convenience. |
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| Imaris
Classic and Imaris 3 |
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| Virtually
all of the formats used in confocal microscopy. |
Allows
user to process images without the need to convert
them. For large images (especially time series) this
is a big time-saver and space-saver.
Allows
the user to leave image in the format in which they
were acquired. This gives them the possibility to
continue to process them with the acquisition software
and in parallel with Imaris.
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| Many
formats used in wide-field image acquisition |
Similar
reasoning than for confocal. |
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| Editors |
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user
specific preferences, image parameters |
Every
user can choose his personal defaults. |
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| color
editor (base color mode, lookup table mode) |
Allows
the user to quickly change visual appearance of data.
We can change the color instantly in all views.
Imaris
can process any number of channels.
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| data
type editor (8, 16, 32 bits per voxel) |
Compatibility
with acquisition systems.
For
quantitative analysis the dynamic range is important.
Message: we use all the information that is in the
image.
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| image
crop editor |
User
can choose interesting part of image only. This speeds
up processing and reduces need for computer resources.
Often
the acquition volume is larger than the object of
interest to make sure that everything is captured.
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| Interoperability |
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|
output
generated using standard tiff format |
Imaris
procedurs standard output. Users can easily take Imaris
output into other applications by copy-paste or through
exchanging TIFF files. |
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| movie
output in MPEG/AVI |
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| data
exchange with image database (image access, Selima) |
Time
saver. By automatic storage of result images into ImageAccess
the user does not need to organize the results "manually". |
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