Microscope Control Software

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Microscope video (FOV width 500 um) of eucaryote (934kB Divx3-video)

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[edit] Microscope Control Software

[edit] Hardware

At the MMVL a Linux software for controlling a Leica DM LAM microscope with a Basler A302fc IIDC/DCAM-compatible firewire camera has been developed.

[edit] Software

[edit] Features

The software uses OpenGL to display the camera image with a high framerate. The software already has the following capabilities:

  • Move object table with mouse-dragging
  • Camera-display with digital zoom (requires IIDC 1394-based firewire digital camera)
  • Display and capture videos:
    • Colour images
    • Graylevel images
    • Edge images (thresholded Sobel)
  • Capture focus stacks

[edit] Implementation

The implementation took maybe 15 days. Before being able to develop the application itself, the Mimas-library had to be enhanced with firewire digital camera input, the existing libserial-library had to be enhanced with timing functionality and the required part of the serial communication with the Leica DM LAM microscope had to be implemented under Linux.

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[edit] Gallery

Screenshot of Qt3 software controlling a microscope developed with Mimas
Image of syringe chip, captured with the software
Microscope image (FOV width 1 mm) of eucaryote (4.8MB video)
Microscope image (FOV width 500 um) (6.7MB video)
Microscope image (FOV width 100 um) of eucaryote (12.6MB video)

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