Dear Douglas,
We at VayTek, Inc., are a distributor of the Imaris software for the US and Canada as well as the developer of our own 3-D software, VoxBlast. We are also very familiar with VoxelView, more on that in a moment. The Imaris software is a very well designed high-end user graphics volume visualization software that curently sells for about $13,500. I can send you some literature as well as a demo CD that should allow you to sample the Imaris program for about 30 days.
Additionally, as I stated earlier, we are a software developer and have our own 3-D volume visualization and measurement package, VoxBlast. For the SGI, this software only product sells for $7995 (or at a 1/3 discount if you are a VoxelView user). We also have a free demo version of this software that you can try out from the internet that is locked to a heart data set. For instructions on how to download this demo program or for more information about our company and our products please visit our web page at www.vaytek.com.
With regards to VoxelView and Vital Images it should be noted that they no longer support development of their product with regards to the microscopy field. In the period of time that their product received FDA approval as a diagnostic tool, they have raised their price by about two-fold (to about $30K). We have had many former VoxelView customers approach us about their 3-D problems (because functionally our two products are very similar) and ask if they could trade in their product with some credit for our product. Therefore we decided to offer their customers 1/3 discount towards the purchase of our product.
As for a comparison between these various 3-D software packages, our product like VoxelView, although having excellent visualization capabilites, has more quantitative features than the Imaris program which is geared more towards confocal users and takes advantage of the graphics capabilities of the SGI platform moreso than our product or VoxelView. Furthermore both Imaris and VoxBlast are software only products whereas VoxelView has a hardware accelerator board which means that when SGI operating systems change (which is rather often) there is often a delay in reconfiguring their software to accomodate these changes. This is not the case with VoxBlast or Imaris.
Finally I wanted to suggest that if you are in the market for an SGI machine and 3-D software such as Imaris or VoxBlast, then we may be in an excellent position to offer you a very good deal. We have an extra SGI Indigo II, High Impact, 250mhz,128 MB RAM, 2 GB HD, CD-ROM, 4mmDAT drive, with network software for internet access and file transfer that is in excellent condition, that as is, with our 3-D software, we could sell for $35,000 (would not include IMARIS). If you are interested in this system then please contact me for further information and details. In any event if you would like to receive more information about our products and IMARIS then please provide us with your complete mailing address, phone and fax.
Best Regards,
Chris MacLean,
VayTek, Inc.
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From: Douglas Hubatsch[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 1997 10:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: 3-d software for confocal images?
We are considering getting a Silicon Graphics workstation in
conjunction with the 'Imaris' image processing software.
I'd be interesting in hearing some opinions on the computer system as
well as the software.
If you use and are happy with other 3-D software I also appreciate
hearing about that as well.
Thanks all!
Doug Hubatsch
LOEB Research Institute
Ottawa, Ont.
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