Re: Software for 3D and 4D analysis

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Hi Andreas

We went with Imaris as we got great support from them and have a load of licenses, plus it processes our spinning disk data well. The annual service fee isn't cheap and its still a fair bit of one image at a time. However we have the floating license and server version and our users can access it from 3 different buildings. A nuisance for our image analyst who has to go chasing around if someone presses the wrong button but very much appreciated by our users. Imaris also offers temporary licenses which is helpful for teaching and / or if you have a user who has a decent computer and needs to do a lot of processing in a short period of time. This way they get their results and the other facility users don't go crazy because this one person blocked up the analysis computer etc.

 We demo'd Arivis and really liked it - it did a great job with our light sheet data - but as others have said it is not a bargain option. I can't comment on the floating license options because we didn't get that far.

Hope that helps

Ann

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Subject: Software for 3D and 4D analysis

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Dear all,   I am interested to hear your opinions regarding image analysis software for processing of larger datasets 3D and 4D datasets. How do Imaris, Arivis and Aivia (maybe others?) compare? I am aware of Icy and Fiji, but often find that we are hitting the limits when working with large files e.g. 20 GB - 50 GB, but not the TB range yet. On the other hand we often have to go back to Fiji to do some more complex analysis. This would be for a light microscopy facility setting.    Best wishes   Andreas
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