Dear Mario

Yoo asked about scanning stages below and using labview.
This is written by our computer expert who has had a lot to do with
setting up our home made (loudspeakers wired in antiparallel in a
push / pull arrangement) scanning stage.

Pal
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Well, we've certainly written software to run a scanning stage, but not
the scanning stage mentioned here.  Our scanning stage is custom made, and
is simply driven with voltage inputs.  As a further development, we have
added compensation for the measured response of our stage to voltage.

It's fairly straightforward, the only real trick is to have the IMAQ
Vision libraries for displaying and saving images (fromerly the Concept.VI
libraries).

Matthew.

> Subject:      LabView and Scanning Stages
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> To One and All,
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> I am in the process of assembling a scanning stage microscope system
> probably using LEP x-y-z BioPoint stages on either an upright Zeiss or
> Olympus. I also want to control the stages using LabView software so that I
> can customize as needed. Has anyone done this already? Have any of you
> created LabView programs to control Ludl or other scanning stages. At the
> Berkeley Lab, we use LabView to run a scanning x-ray microscope that relies
> on Queengate piezo stages for high resolution, so I know that drivers and
> hardware exists for that kind of a system.
>
> Any info. would be much appreciated.
> Mario M. Moronne, Ph.D.
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> LBNL
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> Berkeley, CA.
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