Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility (MHMF.ORG)

Image Processing Workstations:  Schott  |  Brewster  |  Nomarski  |  Snell

• Brewster - image processing
  • This computer replaces Monarch
  • On MHmicroscopy domain
  • Dual monitors
  • 3.0 GHz PC Pentium 4 / 1 GB RAM
  • DVD+/-rw & CD+/-rw
  • USB ports
  • Firewire 1394A ports
  • C-Imaging 6
  • Offline LeicaLCS - full software (including 3D, FRAP/FRET etc.)
  • Offline (analysis only) Metamorph 4.6 image processing software
  • QuickTime 6 Pro - can open image series (time or z) and make movies in various formats
  • Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop - Illustrator - Acrobat writer/distiller
  • Microsoft Office 2003 - Word, Excel, Power Point, Access & FrontPage
  • Winzip 9.1

• Monarch - image processing - Replaced by Brewster
  • Dual screen
  • 1.8 GHz PC Pentium 4 / 512 MByte RAM
  • 16X CD writer
  • USB ports

• Snell - 3D Viewing and Rendering
  • 3 GHz PC Pentium 4 / 2.0 GByte
  • Firewire 1394A ports
  • USB ports
  • C-Imaging 6
  • Volocity 3.6.1  -  3D rendering & classification (tracking)
  • Slicer - 3D volume rendering (single channel, known algorithms, finer control of alpha)
  • Photoshop CS
  • Quicktime 6.4
  • ImageJ
  • DVD+/-rw & CD+rw writer
  • Roxio Easy CD Creater 6

   

• Young - 3D Viewing and time lapse & video digitization
  • 2.2 GHz PC Pentium 4 / 1.5 GByte RAM
  • C-Imaging 5.2
  • Photoshop 7.0
  • Premiere 6.0
  • Quicktime 6.4
  • Slicer - 3D volume rendering
  • Image Surfer
  • DVD+/-rw & CD+rw writer
  • Roxio Easy CD Creater 6

   

• Malus
  • Secure web server http://malus.med.unc.edu - is prone to crashing!
  • Software distribution
  • Manual distribution

The following acquisition stations have some data processing capabilities.  If demand is heavy for the acquisition stations please consider performing analysis on one of the image processing work stations listed above.  Data stored in user areas (D: drive usually) is accessible via network directory shares between acquisition, workstation and file server computers

• Fresnel  - Acquisition and image processing
  • MHMICROSCOPY domain
  • Leica Inverted microscope
  • C-Imaging 6
  • Q-Imaging MicroPublisher cooled color CCD camera
  • High sensitivity b/w camera for fluorescence - Hamamatsu OrcaER
  • 16X CD writer
  • Adobe Photoshop 7
  • Microsoft Office 2000

• Hooke - Acquisition and image processing
  • MHMICROSCOPY domain
  • C-Imaging 6
  • Nikon Upright microscope
  • Nikon Dissecting microscope
  • Nikon DXM 1200 CCD color camera
  • 16X CD writer

   

• Morpheus
  • MHMICROSCOPY domain
  • C-Imaging 6
  • Nikon inverted TE2000 microscope
  • B/W camera - DVC 1312
  • B/W camera - DVC 1412
  • B/W intensified camera - DVC IntensicamII

• 3D Deconvolution (Planned)
  • PC Pentium 4
  • Software yet to be determined - Initially XCOSM under Linux

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