PS - processing and Z cropping tiled Leica images

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PS - processing and Z cropping tiled Leica images

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I should add that Leica's later SP5 software also does tile scan differently to
earlier incarnations. In the older versions, you got a seperate Z series for each
field of view in the experiment file, plus the tiled image (provided you set the
options correctly to retain raw images). In the later incarnations you get a
single series containing XYZ of all tiles, making tile based operations more
awkward (if you then have to manually crop out each tile, one by one).

In defense of the stitching ability of Leica's software, I guess that it is trying
to stitch by image content rather than simply by stage coordinates and in our
samples there isn't a huge area of signal in each field for it to work with, in our
experience it works well with more information rich samples.

Cheers,

DAJ
G. Esteban Fernandez G. Esteban Fernandez
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Re: PS - processing and Z cropping tiled Leica images

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I should add that I don't know if or how well Fiji will import the
Leica confocal image format, you might have to export everything to
TIFF.  Also, you will have to stitch each plane separately.  I wrote
an ImageJ macro at some point to automate the plane-by-plane
stitching, so if you do go this route let me know and I'll dig the
macro out for you.

-Esteban


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:18 AM, David Johnston <[hidden email]> wrote:

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>
> I should add that Leica's later SP5 software also does tile scan differently to
> earlier incarnations. In the older versions, you got a seperate Z series for each
> field of view in the experiment file, plus the tiled image (provided you set the
> options correctly to retain raw images). In the later incarnations you get a
> single series containing XYZ of all tiles, making tile based operations more
> awkward (if you then have to manually crop out each tile, one by one).
>
> In defense of the stitching ability of Leica's software, I guess that it is trying
> to stitch by image content rather than simply by stage coordinates and in our
> samples there isn't a huge area of signal in each field for it to work with, in our
> experience it works well with more information rich samples.
>
> Cheers,
>
> DAJ