Microlucida®Version History

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Microlucida® Version 2024.1.2

Released July 2024

Licensing Update:
Update to offline software licensing. Microlucida software requires reactivation on systems that do not have access to the internet. Instructions for offline software activation are included in the Microlucida user guide.

Microlucida® Version 2024.1.2

Released July 2024

New Features and Enhancements

  • New auto-calibration feature offers hands-free correction for camera rotation and establishes lens calibration
  • New Scan Repair for continuing incomplete slide scans and replacing problematic image tiles
  • Added the ability to Live Zoom or zoom in on the live-camera feed
  • Slide scanning workflow now includes the option to employ “Stitching” for improved alignment of adjacent images
  • Added new vessel tracing tools
  • Added the ability to conduct Parcentric Parfocal calibration of just a single objective
  • Slide Scanning added a new filter for background subtraction
  • New ability to set the rotation angle in 3D view
  • Biolucida integration
    • New image browser
    • Improved Biolucida connection interface
  • Added support for the new MBF Bioscience Vesalius Spinning disk confocal structured illumination device
  • Added support for Aura Light source and the 89 North LDI
  • Can now save a file containing a single color channel from a multi-color channel image
  • Added support for 12-bit OME-TIFF files

Microlucida® Version 2020.2.1

Released September 2020

New Features and Enhancements:

 

  • Basler cameras are now supported
  • Checkbox to “User local help system” added to Preferences
  • PC serial nuber is now available in the About menu

Microlucida® Version 2020.1.1

Released February 2020

New Features and Enhancements

 

  • New contour list tool that enables importing of csv or txt file of regions or contour names and enables ability to search for names in the list of contours
  • Added controls in the export tracing dialog for exporting images at a specific resolution
  • Added an option to Select Objects to “Select everything of this contour type”
  • Added a new, faster cursor option in preferences

Microlucida® Version 2019.1.4

Released March 2019

Issues Resolved:

 

  • Fixed a crash when embedding a scalebar in an image

Microlucida® Version 2019.1.3

Released July 2019

Issues Resolved:

 

  • Slide scanning workflow: Issues with multichannel acquisitions; number error message
  • AutoContour would resize the AutoMove box
  • Slide scanning worklfow where the scan would always start at 0 when doing a 3D scan with no focus map

Microlucida® Version 2019.1.2

Released March 2019

New Features and Enhancements:

 

  • Slide Scan workflow – step 1: fluorescent scan automatically selected when multichannel is enabled
  • Slide Scan workflow – step 8: “acquire sample image” unchecked by default
  • Slide Scan workflow – step 10: user no longer prompted to save background correction image (brightfield only)
  • File>Preferences: “Show lens in Quick Access toolbar” added

Microlucida® Version 2019.1.1

Released January 2019

New Features and Enhancements:

 

  • Slide scan workflow added to simplify slide scanning
  • Completely redesigned Preferences panels with a handy search functionality
  • Export: New “Set neuron colors” button and button to launch neuron preferences; scalebar color and placement controls; new EMF detail slider
  • Huron support: Huron jpeg files, definition for Huron file extension, support for Huron TIFF images
  • Slide scanning assembly operation: added notification about missing