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VisBio: a Flexible Open-Source Visualization Package for Multidimensional Image Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Curtis T. Rueden*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kevin W. Eliceiri
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Over the past few years there has been a dramatic improvement in microscopy acquisition techniques, in effective imaging modalities as well as raw hardware performance. As the microscopist's available tools become more sophisticated and diverse—e.g., time-lapse, Z sectioning, multispectra, lifetime, nth harmonic, polarization, and many combinations thereof—we face a corresponding increase in complexity in the software for understanding and interpreting the resultant data. With lifetime imaging, for example, it is overwhelming to study the raw numbers; instead, an exponential curve-fitting algorithm must be applied to extract meaningful lifetime values from the mass of photon counts recorded by the instrument.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2006

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