Image Pro 3D Constructor® Plug-In

The 3D Reconstruction & Visualization Module for Image-Pro® Plus

The 3D Constructor plug-in module for Image-Pro Plus supplies 3D visualization capabilities to Image-Pro users.

3D reconstruction and visualization can expose hidden relationships within and among objects. 3D Constructor brings this power to researchers through a visualization workspace integrated into the popular Image-Pro Plus environment. Z-stacks may be collected via Media Cybernetics' Scope-Pro® and AFA® modules for Image-Pro Plus, or loaded from stored files in all major confocal formats.

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Specifications

General

Seamless integration with Image Pro Plus 4.5
Full 32-bit application available for Windows 98/ME/NT/2000.
Multi language menu selections (upon request)
Fully automated 3D-solution for light microscopy, with Image Pro wide-field-microscope control module, seamless integrated with the Scope-Pro Advanced Fluorescence Acquisition (AFA) module
Reading of stack-file-formats:
Olympus FluoView Confocal files ; BioRad Confocal files ; Carl Zeiss Confocal files; Leica Confocal files ; Nikon Confocal files ; AutoQuant files; TIFF-series; Image Pro Sequence files
Automated reading of the image parameters for visualization, like wavelength, NA, magnification, immersion refractive index, and X,Y,Z spacing. Alternatively these values can be entered manually.

Visualization

This module includes a volume renderer, stack slicer, and montage tools - all with full interaction.
Volume renderer viewable from any angle, with adjustable transparency and shading.
Full interactive control with 3D-image for zoom, rotate and panning with the image-stack.
Voxel-size and Sub-sampling functionality.
Alpha, Sum and Maximum intensity rendering.
Full freedom of light control for the intensity, direction for the optimum light and shading effects
Choice of material textures, transparencies and opacity
Free choice of palette-colors for optimum color spectrum visualization
Orthogonal slicing aligned with the X, Y or Z axis and free oblique choice of slicing plane.
Visualization of clipping planes in orthogonal and oblique plane-selection and the combination of both.
Selection of VOI (Volume of Interest), which will include or exclude the sub-volume for better visualization of underlying features in the 3D stack.
Stack Slicer for exploring stack data with synchronized display orthogonal slices through a stack.
Animation composer with full flexibility in camera positions, quality and export to e.g. AVI files
Multiple Iso-surface rendering based on traingularization of the selected intensities and colors.
All render methods can be displayed in stereo mode using the OpenGL technology.