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ImageJ Biorad .PIC Plugins

With this set of ImageJ plugins you will now have the ability to open and save Biorad .PIC format images. Download the file and unpack the .zip file into your ImageJ plugin directory.

FV1000 Viewer for FLUOVIEW laser scanning confocal microscopes

Taken from the Olympus software download web site.

This software will be read the data captured by FV1000/FV500/FV300. Images saved with FV file format (OIF, OIB, FV Multi-Tiff) can be read.


ExportEthat is a function to save with the common file format (BITMAP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF etc.) is added and separated from the saving with FV file format.


Since this software is for reading, image capture, measurement, analysis, 3D function etc. can not be used by this software.


Requirements:
Operating System : Microsoft WindowsXP SP2(English recommended)
Available space in hard disk : 100MB or more (Sufficient space for secure installation.)
Display monitor: 1280X1024 pixel resolution with 32bit true colors or more
HT Technology must be disabled in BIOS setting.
Windows Automatic Updates and any Virus Protection program has to be disabled.
If you have already installed FV10-ASW in PC, this software cannot be installed.

Using ImageJ with Olympus 1000 Fluoview (.oib)

For our users using the Olympus 1000 Fluoview. Please note that ImageJ is the BIPL recommended application to use when viewing images captured with the Fluoview 1000. There have been some issues with images not displaying properly and not being able to analyze images when using the FV-1000 viewer software.

The following was taken from OME at LOCI - Software - Bio-Formats library

Bio-Formats is a standalone Java library for reading and writing microscopy file formats, written by Melissa Linkert, Curtis Rueden, Chris Allan, Eric Kjellman and Brian Loranger. It is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several formats.


Installation: Download loci_tools.jar, and drop it into your ImageJ/plugins folder. Next time you run ImageJ, a new LOCI submenu with several plugins will appear in the Plugins menu, including the Bio-Formats Importer and Bio-Formats Exporter.


ImageJ v1.37 and later automatically (via HandleExtraFileTypes) calls the Bio-Formats logic, if installed, as needed when a file is opened within ImageJ—e.g., when using File/Open instead of explicitly choosing "Bio-Formats Importer" from the Plugins/LOCI menu.


Upgrading: To upgrade, just overwrite the old loci_tools.jar with the new one. You may want to download the latest version of ImageJ first, to take advantage of new features and bugfixes.

Biorad Parameter Generator

This excel file will calculated the ideal iris diameter for an airy disk of 1, the nyquist sampling rates, and the backprojected pinhole radius for previously calculated airy disk diameter. All that needs to be entered is the magnification and numerical aperture (N.A.) of the objective, the excitation wavelength, and refractive index (R.I.) of the lens. It can also calculate the backprojected pinhole radius for other iris diameters. The Nyquist sampling rates are in NANOMETERS, convert them to microns for use in the Biorad software.

This information is only valid for a BIORAD machine.

PSF for Bio-Rad 1024 Multiphoton Confocal

The following attachments are the point spread functions for the Bio-Rad 1024 Multiphoton at the FTIC (488 nm) and Texas Red (568 nm) wavelengths using the 60x oil objective. A pdf is included that has the sampling information for the point spread functions.
This data is ONLY valid for the multiphoton.

Confocal Assistant

Software for 3D analysis of confocal images. Version has not changed since 1996, but still runs well on most Windows platforms. Download version 4.2 (Windows 3.1, 95/98/NT/2000, 1.09 Mb)

ImageJ Macro -- Batch convert single Tiff images to Tiff image stack

This ImageJ macro opens all the files in a folder and places them in a stack.

To install the macro, in ImageJ choose the Plugins menu item, then Macros>Install from the drop down list. When prompted, find the "convert_tiffs_to_stack.txt" file that you had downloaded. To run the program, click on Plugins and choose "Batch Convert TIFFs to Stack" from the drop down list.

Here's how to use the macro:

Two dialog boxes are displayed. Select the source folder in the first and the destination folder in the second.

This macro presumes that the files are named in some kind of logical order. The images are placed in a first in / first out stack with image #1 on top followed by image #2 and so on.

Download the macro by right clicking and selecting a SAVE option. It will download as a text (.txt) file.

ImageJ Macro -- Convert BioRad image to Tiff image

This ImageJ macro converts all the files in a folder to a different format.

To install the macro, in Image J choose the Plugins menu item, then Macros>Install from the drop down list. When prompted, find the "biorad_to_tiff.txt" file that you had downloaded. To run the program, click on Plugins and choose "Batch Convert BioRad to TIFF" from the drop down list.

Here's how to use the macro:

Two dialog boxes are displayed. Select the source folder in the first and the destination folder in the second.

The macro presumes that the source directory has biorad .pic files present. Once this file is opened the image will be projected along the z axis.

The macro also presumes that you have the Open Biorad PIC plugin installed as well as the Handle Extra File Types plugin.

Download the macro by right clicking and selecting a SAVE option. It will download as a text (.txt) file.