Software Resources

Software

OS

Mfr

Microscope

Workstation

Mode

Fluoview

WinXP

Olympus

Confocal

X

Acquisition, processing

Slidebook

Win7

3i

Marianas

X

Acquisition, quantitation

Spot

OSX

Diag. Inst.

Optiphot

Acquisition

Huygens Pro

OSX

SVI

X

Deconcolution, 3D quant.

Fiji

OSX, Win7

NIH

X

File conversion, processing, quantitation

Office

OSX, Win7

MS

X

Presentations, data

Photoshop

OSX, Win7

Adobe

X

Presentations

DMC Capabilities for Image Acquisition

- Multi-channel fluorescence
- Mixed fluorescence and transmitted light image capture
- Laser scanning confocal microscopy
- Monochrome and color brightfield and DIC image capture
- Timelapse imaging up to 10 fps
- Z-stack capture for 3D imaging and deconvolution
- Timelapse with Z-stack capture (4D)
- Montage and Multi-point sampling in 2D and 3D
- Photoactivation
- Stereology
- FRET
- Autofocus

DMC Capabilities for Processing and Analysis

- Particle analysis
- Co-localization, in 2D and 3D
- Densitometry in 2D and 3D
- Deconvolution
- Stereology
- 3D feature extraction
- Rotation projections

Short-term data storage is available on 2 servers. The confocal image server has 6 Tb and an NAS for general imaging provides 2 Tb. Both servers are mirrored on-site for protection against hardware failure. All users are responsible for transferring files to their own archive mechanisms for long-term storage. Files left on acquisition systems for over 2 months will be deleted.