Search the CONFOCAL archive at
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal

Dear Floyd,

We already have Imaris in my lab and it works well for rendering
etc.  However we also had a demo of Velocity 2 last week because we need to
start doing 4-D tracking of multiple cells through time series of Z-stacks,
and as far as I understand there are currently some problems doing this in
Imaris, though they are working on this.   (Maybe this is already sorted -
if so, apologies to Bitplane!)  As Velocity 2 is very new and had only just
been loaded onto their demo computers there were a few bugs that still need
to be sorted out (such as the ability to incorporate all the header info
from a Zeiss LSM stack directly) but I don't imagine that will take them
long to correct.  The software itself was very impressive and the tracking
features were excellent.  I would also suggest considering Autoquant (I saw
this too very recently) as their rendering package is excellent too and the
software appears to be cheaper than the others.  Again though, their 4D
tracking capabilities are not currently as advanced as Velocity 2, though
they are developing them as I write.
As you can see, we are also having a problem deciding which package will
suit our needs the best!

Good luck with the decision,

Alison


At 08:31 AM 11/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Search the CONFOCAL archive at
>http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal
>
>Dear Listservers.
>
>We have to purchase 3D image processing software.
>We have to follow and measure movements of cells and organelles in 4D,
>measure 3D colocalisations, from confocal imaging and in a near future from
>two-photon equipment.
>
>what do you think about Imaris and Volocity?
>Somebody have seen a Volocity 2 demo?
>
>Thank you!
>
>
>Floyd
>
>
>____________________________________________________________
>
>Sarria J.-C. Floyd
>Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) - Lausanne
>School of Life Sciences - The Neurosciences Institute
>EPFL/SV/Cellular Neurobiology Lab (LNC)/ Image Processing & Analysis
>AI-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
>
>Phone : +41 (21) 693 96 29
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>URL: http://sv.epfl.ch

Dr. Alison J. North
Rockefeller University,
Bio-Imaging Resource Center, Box #209,
1230 York Avenue,
New York,
NY 10021,
USA

Tel. (212) 327 7488
Fax. (212) 327 7489
e-mail: [log in to unmask]