Microscope Control Software
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* You then need to install [http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/jan/mimas/mimas-1.4.tar.bz2 Mimas-1.4] (12.2 MByte). | * You then need to install [http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/jan/mimas/mimas-1.4.tar.bz2 Mimas-1.4] (12.2 MByte). | ||
* Finally you need to install [http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/jan/leica.tar.gz leica.tar.gz] (32 kByte). | * Finally you need to install [http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/jan/leica.tar.gz leica.tar.gz] (32 kByte). | ||
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+ | * [http://www.micro-scope.de/toc.html European Microscopy Site] | ||
+ | * [http://www.leica-microsystems.com/ Leica Microsystems] (on this site you can find the documentation of the serial protocol) | ||
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Revision as of 20:21, 16 January 2006
Contents |
Microscope Control Software
Hardware
At the MMVL a Linux software for controlling a Leica DM LAM microscope with a Basler A302fc standard firewire camera (DC1394) has been developed.
Software
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
- 640x480 Camera-display with digital zoom
- Display and capture videos:
- Colour images
- Graylevel images
- Edge images (thresholded Sobel)
- Capture focus stacks
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.
Download
- You need to have Qt and libdc1394 on your computer.
- You first need to install libserial-0.4.1.tar.gz (195 kByte).
- You then need to install Mimas-1.4 (12.2 MByte).
- Finally you need to install leica.tar.gz (32 kByte).
External Links
- European Microscopy Site
- Leica Microsystems (on this site you can find the documentation of the serial protocol)