My apologies to the group for an earlier message that was truncated
due to undiagnosed problems with my email account. I'll attempt to
post once more...
 
A vendor responds:
 
Applied Precision, Inc. is marketing the DeltaVision system, a wide
field optical sectioning microscope workstation, designed for acquiring
high resolution, three-dimensional images of fluorescently labeled
specimens.  Our system has been optimized for deconvolution microscopy,
featuring highly sensitive detection (currently 12 bit), automated
optical sectioning, multiple wavelength and time-lapse data acquisition.
A Silicon Graphics workstation controls the microscope, peripherals,
cooled CCD detector, and enables application of sophisticated
computational processing of multidimensional image data.
 
Two DeltaVision software modules have recently been made available
(June 1994) for use with other acquisition systems (confocal or
wide-field):
 
Our Quantitative Processing Module (QPM) features 3-D deconvolution
(and flexibility - of methods, filtering, smoothing, etc.) and includes
an application to convert a measured point spread function to an
optical transfer function.
 
The image display and analysis module, Priism (yes, two i's) includes
3-D rotation (projections and quantitatively accurate interpolation),
measurement, image arithmetic, movies, and region/polygon/volume
segmentation.  3-D Modeling and associated functions will be released
by the end of the year.
 
The image data types are 8 bit, 16 bit, floating-point, complex integer
(16 bit), and complex floating-point.
 
For information, please contact:
Deanna Frost, Ph.D.
Applied Precision, Inc.
8505 SE 68th Street
Mercer Island,  WA  98040
voice: 206-236-0704  FAX: 206-232-4184
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