Software


	Software for digital microscopy - New dimensions in digital image processing for materials analysis.

	Carl Zeiss is application-driven in all of its research and development. In software, this means a superb solution for the demands of the day-to-day lab routine. All functions are tailored to the requirements of light microscopy – from classical applications in the clinical laboratory to the latest techniques in the metals or plastics industries.

		Axiovision


	iVision-Mac™


	Imaging and Automation for Science


	Complete Imaging Package for Mac

iVision‐-Mac is image acquisition, processing, measurement, and analysis software. iVision‐-Mac directly supports the acquisition of images and time-lapse series. Sophisticated imaging processes or even simple routines can be automated down to the push of a single button through the use of the intuitive scripting tool. There is no need to learn Visual Basic or other programming languages when you want to automate your imaging routines. Also, fully integrated extensions easily automate microscope control by driving motorized microscope hardware.

Our team of scientists and engineers designed iVision‐-Mac to include the full set of tools needed to build imaging, analysis, and automated solutions for the laboratory. Free camera controls let you acquire images from any camera we support. Extensions (such as Ratio Plus, Fluorescence CV, and Motion Control) smoothly integrate new processing, analysis, and hardware control commands into iVision‐-Mac.

iVision‐-Mac is a proven solution worldwide, and can be found in hundreds of citations in the most prestigious journals every year. Since its creation, thousands of scientists have incorporated iVision‐-Mac into their research.


	The Main Tools provide easy access to the most common image operations in Life Science imaging: creation of new images; opening and saving image files; normalization; pseudocoloring; and creation of new color images from multiple images representing data in multiple colors, representing fluorescent signals and brightfield background, or representing fluorescent labels that may be colocalized.



The Image Tools allow one to scroll across an image that does not fit within its window, to adjust the magnification of the pixels in the image window, to measure lengths or angles, to rotate the color tables on indexed color images, and to set registration marks used for image registration.

		The Region of Interest tools allow the selection of the area within an image for processing, filtering or quantifying. The defined region of interest may be a rectangle, an oval, a polygon, a shape drawn freehand or a shape defined by the segments as defined by automated segmentation or by manual use of iVision‐-Mac Segment Tools.





	Operations not available on other toolbars can be bound to keyboard function keys and listed in the Function Key Palette, providing easy access to facilities used every day. iVision‐-Mac binds function keys to individual functions that it provides or to scripts recorded within iVision‐-Mac. This provides easy access to the operations that one uses frequently. Here is an example of a typical function key palette. The function keys run scripts for display of the camera's view of the specimen, capture of images using fluorescence microscopy or brightfield microscopy, enhancement of the image, cropping unneeded data, and saving the results to disk.


	iVision‐-Mac provides a point‐-and‐-click interface for control of imaging‐-related hardware. The position of devices such as filter wheels, X-Y stages and Z-axis focus drives can be displayed and may be altered.

The Segment tools define areas to be measured. iVision‐-Mac allows the creation of as many as nine segments in each image window, and can measure the segments individually.
These tools define segments as rectangles, ovals, polygons, lines, or areas defined with a paintbrush. A Cut tool allows the separation of objects that are clumped together, allowing iVision‐-Mac to count the objects as individuals.


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