Re: on-chip integration with Scion frame-grabber

Posted by Martin Wessendorf-2 on Oct 13, 2008; 6:42pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/on-chip-integration-with-Scion-frame-grabber-tp3694784p3694785.html

Dear List--

I didn't get much response to the message below, but members of the List
may want to know that Scion Corp has subsequently made several useful
modifications to their ImageJ plug-in.  It's now possible to control
integration on-the-fly.

This plug-in isn't available on the Scion site but anyone interested in
getting it should contact Thomas Morton at Scion: [hidden email] .

No commercial interest.

Martin

Martin Wessendorf wrote:

> Hey, folks--
>
> Back in the Dark Ages of 10 or 12 years ago, we bought a Cohu 4915 CCD
> camera that we controlled using a board from Scion Imaging and their
> variant of NIH Image.  One of the beauties of the system was that using
> Scion's variation of NIH Image, you didn't need a camera controller to
> control integration--you could set it, on-the-fly, inside NIH Image.
> The integrated image continually refreshed and you could change the
> number of frames integrated by clicking on the top or the bottom of the
> window.  You could also set it to capture a set of integrated windows
> into a stack, which then could be averaged or otherwise manipulated.
>
> We just bought a new computer, a new Scion FG-7 frame-grabber but still
> have the same camera.  We would like to do the same things we've been
> doing, using ImageJ.  Are the two programs (i.e. NIH Image and ImageJ)
> similar enough that it might be possible to implement these
> features in ImageJ (i.e. continual refreshing of integrated images,
> on-the-fly changes to the number of frames integrated and collection of
> integrated images to a stack)?  Scion has a variant of ImageJ that it
> distributes but I've not been able to make it do any of these things.
> It'd be helpful to know whether they're even possible.
>
> Comments/suggestions welcome!
>
> Thanks--
>
> Martin Wessendorf

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