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RGB Color Movies With VoxBlast
Data courtesy of David L. Gard, Ph.D., Dept. of Biology, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah
The sample above was rendered from data collected from a confocal microscope. The movie depicts a stage of oogenesis in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis.
The following paragraph is an excerpt from Dr. Gard's Website:
The 3-D reconstructions seen here as video animations were generated
using VoxBlast software from VayTek, Inc., running under Windows
for Workgroups 3.11 on a 90MHZ Pentium personal computer equipped
with 64 MB of physical RAM. Rendering times varied from 10-60
seconds for smaller data sets (less than about 40 MB) that can
be loaded completely into RAM, to 15 minutes for 150-175 MB data
sets that require the use of the windows swap file (the size
of the data set includes the "real" optical sections,
plus "interpolated" sections included to give the correct
XYZ aspect ratio...a data set including 10 full-screen "real"
images, with four "interpolated" images between each
is about 20 MB total size). The animated video clips were generated
frame-by-frame in VoxBlast by sequentially reconstructing views
differing one degree in azimuth, and were then converted to QT
and AVI formats in Adobe premiere.
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Data courtesy of David L. Gard, Ph.D., Dept. of Biology,
University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah
The sample above was rendered from data collected from a confocal microscope. The movie depicts a stage of oogenesis in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. The female egg shows a complex array of microtubules, which form tracks for transporting molecules throughout everything inside a cell except its nucleus. More than 50 contiguous sections were acquired and then reconstructed with VayTek's VoxBlast to create a three-dimensional volume. The research focuses on understanding microtubule regulation in oocytes. A combination of advanced imaging techniques allows the researcher to see complex spatial and temporal patterns of how the microtubules assemble and organzie themselves.
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