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VoxBlast Software
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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
• Surveillance
• CCD Cameras

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VayTek, Inc.
505 N 3rd St.
Suite 200
Fairfield, IA
Tel 641-472-2227
Fax 641-472-8131
Email vaytek@vaytek.com

VoxBlast is a volume rendering program written and maintained by the University of Iowa's Image Analysis Facility. It was designed as a general purpose rendering application 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, 2-D and 3-D measurements, 2-D slice viewing, cropping, seed fill, movie loop generation, filters, palette editing, surface extraction, polygon rendering, etc. For more information, see VoxBlast.html.

• Ureteric Tree of Rat Kidney
  
• RGB Color Movie of Human Skin Biopsy
  
• Flood Fill of Microtubules Near Mitochondrial Mass
  
• Cutting Plane in Rotating Heart (CT Scan)
  
• 3D Ultrasound of Fetus
  
• Calcium Labelled Cardiac Myocyte (Deconvolved Confocal Image)
  
• 3D Reconstruction of Point Spread Function from .2 Micron Bead
  
• Embedding Traces in Microtomed Slices of Chick Embryo
  
• Oogenesis in the African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis
  
• Fluorescent Alveolar Septum
  
• Deconvolution of Thick Specimens
  actin fibers, 120 microns thick
  
• 3D Microscopy of Living Cells
  tobacco cells
  
• RGB Color Movies, with VoxBlast software, Dr. David Gard, University of Utah

FREE DOWNLOAD of VoxBlast 3-D SAMPLE MOVIE SCRIPTS

Here are some 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 some 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 functions. Click here to download a script which uses the Ortho Limit function to "cut through" a volume (2 KB). The object starts from the front view, rotates to an oblique view, then cuts away the object slice by slice. Click here to download a script in which the cutting plane is rotated on axis inside the volume (3 KB). Click here to download a script in which the cutting plane is moved through the volume (3 KB).

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. Free Demo Versions of VoxBlast

Contact us at vaytek@vaytek.com or call 641-472-2227.