Re: What has happened to "extended focus" in Leica Software?

Posted by Glen MacDonald-2 on
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The Extended Focus plugin for ImageJ can give good results,.  We found identical results compared with the Image Pro function.  
No, an average projection is not the same, but may be of benefit when working with features displaying a wide range of intensities.

Regards,
Glen
On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:16 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
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> I cannot check it right now, b/c the PC I am working with has only the LAS AF Light version installed, and it is a "NO LICENCE!" feature, so I cannot go to the dropdown tab... :-(
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> But I think to remember that there are "Maximum" and "Average", and my impression was that "average" does not exactly do the same as the old "Extended Focus" - is it the same algorithm??
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> Thanks so far!
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> :-) Torsten
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> On 20 Jan 2010 at 10:07, Jonathan Boyd wrote:
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> > Hi Torsten,
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> > Under the Processing tab go to 3D projection.  Look under the dropdown tab. It defaults to Max projection.  You will see there are other methods for rendering your volumes in this dropdown.
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> > Hope this helps,
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> > Jonathan
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