Hi All,
 
I just caught this post on the Usenet group sci.techniques.microscopy, and
thought I would repost here due to its direct relevance to people reading on
this mailing list:
 
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From: [log in to unmask] (Keith Doolittle)
Subject: xcosm : 3-D Optical Sectioning Microscopy interface
Date: 28 Jul 1995 18:46:13 GMT
 
Introducing XCOSM : 3-D optical sectioning microscopy processing interface
 
   xcosm is an X-Windows interface to implementations of two algorithms
for computational optical sectioning microscopy (COSM) that reduce
the effects of out-of-focus light in 3-D data sets collected plane-by-plane.
The two algorithms are Regularized Linear Least Squares (LLS) by C. Preza,
a relatively fast single pass algorithm, and Expectation Maximization (EM)
by J. A.  Conchello, a slow iterative algorithm which requires much longer
processing but provides higher quality images.
 
 This software has been developed at the Biomedical Computer Laboratory
at Washington University, St. Louis MO, and can be obtained free of
charge through the following:
 
        http://bcl.wustl.edu/xcosm/xcosm.html
 
This web site also includes more detailed on-line documentation about
xcosm and its features.
 
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It goes without saying that I will add a link to this software on my Web page
upon its next update (which will hopefully be soon! -- so much to do, so
little time...)
 
Regards,
 
--Lance.
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Lance Ladic
Dept. of Physiology
University of B.C.
Vancouver, Canada
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3-D Confocal Web page:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/ladic/confocal.html