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- Microscopy
- Industrial Inspection
- Medical Imaging
- Quality Control
- Non-Destructive Testing
- Deconvolution of Confocal Images
- 3D Volume Visualization and Measurement
- Surveillance
- CCD Cameras
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505 N 3rd Street
Suite 200
Fairfield, IA
Tel 641-472-2227
Fax 641-472-8131
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VoxBlast is available in two versions, VoxBlast Express (TM) and VoxBlast RealTime (TM). For real time rendering, the software is matched with a RealTime card, allowing researchers to zoom in, to rotate, and to adjust the opacity in a region of interest with no rendering delays. All RealTime viewing adjustments can now be made by clicking and dragging on the actual 3-D image, without reference to a wireframe display window. Viewing all aspects of a 3D volume in this convenient RealTime format results in less trial and error.
New Features in VoxBlast include:
- 2-D Image Window with greater options, including the ability to display up to four 2-D images. Each image in the display window can have an independent orientation. It is now possible to display three orthogonal views plus an arbitrary orientation; or the user can view four arbitrary planes at once.
- The "Slice Tracing" function has been redesigned and expanded.
- Object Counting: A new Object Counting function allows users to generate a file with the x, y, z coordinates for each object. The coordinates can be imported into a spreadsheet.
The new version takes full advantage of Windows 98, 2000, and NT operating systems for interactive, easy-to-use graphical interfaces.
For more information, visit VoxBlast.html or contact Patrick Guerin, Customer Technical Support Engineer. Tel : 1- 641-472-2227 Fax : 1-641-472-8131 email : pguerin@vaytek.com
VoxBlast Express for Windows is a general purpose, volume rendering program designed for research. It accepts stacks of registered 2-D images and creates 3-D projections from any viewpoint using an alpha blending or surface rendering algorithm. It includes tools for pseudocoloring, transparency, lighting, movie loop generation, filters, palette editing, etc. Rendering speed depends upon platform/memory and size of data set. VoxBlast 3.0 Express for Windows is now available. Contact Patrick Guerin, Customer Technical Support Engineer, for more information. Tel : 1- 641-472-2227 Fax : 1-641-472-8131 email : pguerin@vaytek.com
Features include but are not limited to:
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Slice Tracing dialog & functions
Object Count dialog & functions
Save and load & Autoname option 2D Orientation
Reverse Stack Order Filters - new 3D Median filter |
Measurement Grid dialog and display
Auto Render toggle option Image Format options
Preferences window
Palette Editor has new Range Editor function |
VoxBlast for Windows is available on the Internet for evaluation.
VayTek is updating VoxBlast RealTime to work with the new VolumePro 1000 3D accelerator card. The VolumePro 1000 board has significant minimum hardware and software requirements that should be noted.
Hardware Requirements:
- IBM PC compatible computer.
- Minimum of 300 MHz Pentium II class microprocessor.
- Minimum of 256 MB RAM.
- Minimum of 37 MB free disk space to install the VolumePro 1000
and VoxBlast software.
- One full length 66 MHz 64 bit PCI slot (for the VolumePro 1000
board).
- An otherwise unused blank I/O slot (for the external power).
The blank I/O slot does not have to be immediately adjacent to
the VolumePro 1000 board and does not require an associated board
connector. Many computers include one blank I/O plate beyond
the last expansion board connector. This can be used for the
VolumePro 1000 power.
- High end graphics accelerator card such as a card that uses
the GeForce2 or 3 technology.
- For embedded geometry applications, a 3D graphics board on
the AGP port with the following characteristics:
- Minimum of 120 MB/second texture download speed.
- Minimum of 120 M texels/second texture mapping performance.
- Fast color and depth buffer read.
- For example, a 3D Labs, Inc. Oxygen VX1 graphics board.
Software Requirements:
Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack(SP) 6a or Windows
2000 with SP 1 or later
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These are sample scripts to generate complex movie loops. If you want to create movies with more than simple rotation, you need to save the individual frames from each iteration of your changes to the rendered 3D image. This manual operation can be tedious and time consuming. If you plan to repeat the process, you can write a script file using a simple text editor, to execute VoxTalk commands that will automate the process. Here are two sample scripts that can get you started. The scripts are commented to help you understand how to use the VoxTalk commands. Click
here to download a script which performs
a complex rotation in the X, Y, and Z axes (4 KB). Each axis
uses a different increment algorithm. The result of this movie
generation script can be seen in the Rat Lung
Alveoli movie loop. The three axis are varied using sine/cosine
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Please note that VayTek is the exclusive distributor of VoxBlast. We have a full-time technical support staff, and are responsible for all promotion and customer support of VoxBlast. We appreciate your cooperation in not contacting personnel at the University of Iowa Image Analysis Facility. All product inquiries should be directed to VayTek's sales and customer support department via phone, fax or e-mail. Thank you.
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