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VayTek offers Advanced Image Processing Systems, including both hardware and software for:
- Microscopy
- Industrial Inspection
- Medical Imaging
- Quality Control
- Non-Destructive Testing
- Deconvolution of Confocal Images
- 3D Volume Visualization and Measurement
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Fairfield, IA 52556
Tel 641-472-2227
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VayTek's Homepage
VayTek, Inc.
505 North Third Street
Suite 200
Fairfield, IA 52556
VayTek supports and resells 2D software that is compatible with MicroTome, VoxBlast, other image processing applications, and with most microscopy hardware. VayTek supplies Image-Pro, IP Lab Spectrum and other stand-alone 2D image processing packages for scientific research and medical imaging.
Call or email us with a description of the work you are doing, along with the hardware or software you may already have, and we will suggest the appropriate 2D software.
Image-Pro Plus (TM) provides image analysis solutions that are fast, accurate and easy to use. Image-Pro Plus is developed by Media Cybernetics for Windows users.
With Image-Pro Plus the user can:
- Acquire images easily from video, CCD cameras, scanners, photo CD, scientific instruments and image databases.
- Comprehensive file format and device support include CCD cameras, image capture cards, and TWAIN scanner devices.
- Image-Pro provides full support of 8-, 12-, and 16-bit precision gray scale, 24-bit color and 32-bit floating point images.
- Advanced virtual memory management techniques allow the user to view multiple images, even those which are larger than the display.
- Equalization, backgroung subtraction, correction and filed lflattening methods enhance color, brightness, and contrast.
- Filtering functions sharpen, soften, blur or enhance edges.
- Touching or overlapping objects can be separated and morphometric processing can be performed.
- Simple geometric measurements and complex structure-function relationships can be obtained.
- Absoluted spatial calibration guarantees accurate measurement data.
- To complete your research, Image-Pro provides the means to analyze, archive, communicate, and present your images.
- For advanced Image processing or OEM product development, use the Image-Pro software development kit.
To purchase Image-Pro Plus, or to inquire about additional features and technical specifications of Image-Pro Plus, Contact VayTek.
Scanalytics CorporationEnhancement and Analysis:
- Filter and enhance contrast
- Geometric registration, rotate, and scale
- Fourier and Cosine transforms
- Intensity statistics
- Pseudocolor
- Profile plots
Particle Analysis:
- Identify objects by intensity, size, shape
- Count, Label and Measure hundreds of objects in seconds
- Density and shape analysis
Visualization and Presentation:
- Time-Lapse and 3D sequence animation with QuickTime movie export
- 8-bit pseudocolor and 24 to 48-bit full color images
- 3-D Perspective views
- Presentation quality plotting
- 3-D volume visualization
- High Dynamic Range Data:
- Capture, process, and display 8-, 16-, 32-bit integer, floating point, 16-, 24-, and 48-bit color data
- Interactive brightness, contrast and gamma control
Image Capture and Automation - Control computer and laboratory hardware, including:
- High-quality grayscale and full 24-bit color video frame grabbers
- High-resolution 12-16 bit, cooled digital CCD cameras
- High-resolution flatbed scanners
- Microscope focus control, automatic filter wheels, and XY stage motors
- Light sources, shutters, VCRs, etc.
Custom Applications:
- Use IPLab's Scripting mechanism to create macro-functions
- Assign frequently used Scripts to Macintosh keyboard F-keys for easy access
- Add your own C and Pascal code to create custom Extension software modules
To purchase IPLab, or to inquire about additional features and technical specifications of , Contact VayTek via email, or phone 515-472-2227.
NEW VayTek Image (TM) -- VayTek Image is an image processing and data acquisition software. It allows scientists to capture images in real time from their microscope and process the images to bring out the relevant features. This free download of VayTek Image provides software that can only use existing images to perform its functions. VayTek Image is designed to capture images from various digital cameras. Customers can contact VayTek to purchase and activate the camera controls.
Download VayTekImage 2.0.116, May 13, 2003, for Windows, 17.3 MB
More details:
VayTek Image is a general purpose 2D Image acquisition and analysis
tool. VayTek Image is not a deconvolution tool although it has
menu items to launch Deconvolution, VolumeScan, VoxBlast, as
well as VoxBlast Light and Blind Deconvolution.
Image Acquisition: Using TWAIN device interface, users
can capture images and display them in the VayTek Image window.
This function is available in the free version of VayTek Image.
The user can also capture images from QImaging, QImaging Intensified,
Hamamatsu, and Cooke cameras, but users must pay VayTek to have
this capability activated.
Image Analysis: All of the basic image manipulation functions
are included in the free version. This includes Rotation, Brightness,
Contrast, Hue, Saturation, and Gamma adjustments, Inverting,
and Resizing. The user can convert images from color to gray,
from 16 to 8 bit, merge colors, extract channels, and annotate.
Users can take simple measurements, apply one of 19 filters,
use cutting tools, fill, and much more. Contact
VayTek for more information.
VolumeScan is a group of software modules developed by VayTek that requires the current version of Image-Pro Plus for Windows. VolumeScan is designed to make the setup and control of hardware add-ons easy and simple. Modules range control one Z azis motor, and/or coordinate control of an X & Y stage, a Z axis motor, shutter and filter wheel to capture color images over time from dim fluorescent specimens. You may Download VolumeScan Demo (6.1 MB)
- VolumeScan, Full Version includes complex, coordinated control of an X & Y stage, Ludl filter wheel and shutter control, as well as control for the CRI color filter C-Mnt to C-Mnt add-on that gives a grayscale CCD camera true color capability for most microscope systems. The filter wheel allows you to capture multiple stacks of images using different fluorescence filters and different exposure times. It also includes time lapse volume scanning control for capturing multiple volumes over time. Time lapse volume scanning requires large amounts of hard disk space.
- Recommended Step Size for Deconvolution
VTrace is a 2D image measurement program developed by VayTek. It creates regions of interest and outputs statistics based on those regions of interest. The statistics include ROI statistics and pixel statistics. ROI statistics are area, perimeter, length, major/minor axes, xy position, centroid and histogram. Pixel statistics include mean, standard deviation, maximum, minimum, running sum, etc. VTrace has a palette editor and allows for spatial and intensity calibration of the 2D image. It also allows the user to crop and cut to the ROI, then save the cropped images. This lets the user fill an ROI, and save a series of cropped or filled ROIs to create subvolumes. It also has a tracing editor and allows for autotracing of the images. VTrace reads and writes 8 bit or 16 bit raw images. It also reads and writes the TIFF image format, and the SGI image library format.
Features- computes 2D statistics on regions of interest and pixels
- palette editor
- sophisticated tracing editor
- creates subvolumes
- 2D and 3D microscopy
- volumetric editing
- MR and CT scans
- densitometry
- X-ray analysis
- general purpose 2D region analysis program
- written in X11 and Motif
- supports 8 bit pseudocolor and 24 bit visuals
- 8 bit or 16 bit images, raw or TIFF format
- most UNIX platforms
- X11 server
- 24 bit (recommended) or 8 bit color monitor
- 64 Mb RAM (larger data sets may require additional RAM)
The Slice Align package, developed by VayTek, consists of two programs: the first program lets a user align a stack of 2D images so they can be used in 3D reconstruction or deconvolution. The user identifies fiduciary points on two consecutive images, then aligns the two images to those selected points. After all the images are aligned, the second program loads all the images into memory and computes the final adjustments automatically using a least squares approach. These programs currently run on SGI and IBM computers. Contact VayTek for details. This program is often used with Surfer described below.
Surfer - 3D Surface Extraction for 3D RenderingThis program, developed by VayTek,
is most often used in combination with the Slice Align programs
outlined above. Re-registered images sometimes do not render
well due to the odd alignments of the boundaries on re-registered
images. Surfer lets the user outline (by tracing) the areas of
interest in each 2D image. After all the areas have been traced,
Surfer extracts a surface based on the multiple 2D traces. The
extracted surface can be rendered in VoxBlast. Surfer is currently
available on SGI machines. Contact VayTek for details.
- Appropriate Light Sources: Advantages of digital haze removal
- Single Image Haze Removal from an Archived File
- Haze Removal from Color Images and Composite Top Views
- A Comparison of Digital Deconvolution and Scanning Confocal Images
- Data Acquisition Issues and Cameras Appropriate for Deconvolution
- Data Acquisition Issues: Image acquisition techniques
- Introduction to Digital Systems for Microscopy: Microscopy fundamentals
- Selected Papers: Limits of depth measurements on stereo pairs
- Technical Note: Deconvolution algorithms and how they work
- What cameras are suitable for deconvolution?
- What resolution should I have for my camera?