What's New in Stereo Investigator 11

3D visualization

• support for 3D hardware
• surface texture-mapping
• enhanced marker visualization
• improved rotation performance, smoothness and user-interactivity when using GPU rendering with large color stacks

Acquisition: Integration with Objective Imaging Turboscan tool; differential brightness across sections for virtual slides and image stacks; High Dynamic Range (HDR) method.

Acquire SRS Image (Series or Stack) workflows: Zoom in and out of contours.

Annotations: Arrows & text

Automatic object detection: Improved process to count and trace cells in virtual slides at different zoom levels; select existing contours as regions of interest.

Automatic software focus: See Autofocus section in General Preferences: Lens.

Batch image deconvolution: Unattended image deconvolution on multiple image stacks using Huygens.

Deep Focus: Save projection at full resolution.

Display formatting: Added support for nanometers.

Enhanced mouse wheel focusing

File import: Fit images to current window during import.

Graphical scalebar

Illumination correction: advanced method for uneven fluorescent illumination.

Stereo Investigator/Biolucida integration

Image information: XMP data & Biolucida images supported.

Image scaling / shrinkage available for images without tracings.

Image size: Resize/resample images and image stacks.

Image stacks: Display stacks that are in current section only; when using PgUp/PgDn keys, restrict navigation to current stack only.

Improved graphic export

Object selection: Select objects based on color.

Serial sections: Rapid stacking; new navigation features in serial section manager (next section, previous section, insert new section at desired position).

Users management: New settings for multiple users of a microscope system.

Virtual Tissue

• New focus map and live preview to make virtual slides creation easier
• Option to exclude unwanted areas from acquisition
• Crop image stacks in 3 dimensions (X,Y,Z). 
• Batch processing

Cavalieri Estimator: Enhanced user interface; probe starts in snap-to-grid mode.

Connectivity Assay workflow: Saves the reference and look up images to the data file.

Connectivity Assay & Physical Fractionator: Supports multiple contours when capturing reference images; supports missing sections.

Excel export: Added to Nearest Neighbor & Merz probes.

Fractionator: Resample Oversample supported.

Nearest Neighbor: Use multiple markers to discriminate between parent cells and daughter cells.

Optical Fractionator workflow: Setting grid size by percentage in step 7: Define SRS Layout.

Physical Fractionator: Bi-directional counting estimated added to results & export.

Zoom to fit on load: The image/tracing is automatically sized to fill the window when opened.