Specifications

The Olympus cellSens platform creates a uniquely personal and intuitive imaging experience based on your preferred workflow. With cellSens you have full control over the display and placement of icons, toolbars and controls to simplify your desktop and enhance your productivity.

cellSens is easy to use, powerful and flexible. Tailoring the software to your budget and imaging applications is easy with its modular design. As your research needs evolve, cellSens grows with you.

*cellSens Package**			EN	ST	DI
Image Acquisition	Image Acquisition	Snapshot/Movie	X	X	X
		Time-Lapse		X	X
		Z-Stack			X
		Automatic acquisition of multi channel Images		Multichannel Acquisition	5D
		Automatic acquisition of multi channel Images combined with time lapse and Z-Stack acquisition			5D
	Multiple Image Alignment	Manual MIA		Manual Process	X
	Multiple Image Alignment	Automatic MIA			Multi Pos.
	Extended Focal Imaging	Instant EFI (manaual Z)		Manual Process	X
	Extended Focal Imaging	EFI (Z stack)			X
	Multi Position	Satge Navigator and Position List			Multi Pos.
	Well plate scan	Definable for the well plate format			Well Nav. & Multi Pos.
	Deconvolution	Online 2D Deconvolution			X
	HDR	High Dynamic Range Imaging (Qualitative)			X
Image Editing	Image synthesis	Multi-image alignment (MIA), color image, Color image coupling, channel coupling		X	X
	Image synthesis	Frame coupling			X
	Mode selection	RGB 24-/48-bit color, multi-channel, gray scale, 8-/16-bit channel	X	X	X
	Geometry	Resize, mirroring, trimming, rotation (90°, 180°, 270°), channel shifting.		X	X
	Geometry	Z stack adjustment, time adjustment			X
	Calibration	Image calibraiton		X	X
	Calibration	Brightness calibration			X
Image Processing	Logics and computations	Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, AND, OR, XOR, minimize, maximize			X
	Edge detection filters	Laplacian			X
	Smoothing filters	Low-pass		X	X
	Smoothing filters	Sigma, Median, Rank, NxN			X
	Sharpness	Sharpen, High-pass		X	X
	Morphological Filter	Erosion, Dilation, Morphological Open, Morphological Close, Gradient, Top Hat Bright, Top Hat Dark, Distance Bright, Distance Dark, Ultimate Erode Bright, Ultimate Erode Dark, Skeleton Bright, Skeleton Dark, Separate Objects			X
	Tone adjustment	Brightness adjustment, RGB adjustment, contrast optimization, contrast maximization, shading correction, background subtraction, background correction, white balance, reversal		X	X
		Offline EFI, Fluorescence			X
		Brightfield Unmixing			C&M Full
		Fluorescence Unmixing			5D
	Deconvolution	Nearest Neighbor, Wiener (inverse filter), Iterative 2D deconvolution			X
	Deconvolution	Constrained Iterative 3D Deconvolution			CI Decon
	Projection	Max/Min/Ave of Z, Max/Min/Ave of time, Max/Min/Ave of wavelength ight and bent lines / Circumference			X
Image Measurement	Manual Measurement	Origin / Length of straight and bent lines / Circumference and area of circle, ellipse, rectangle and polygon / Angle	X	X	X
	Manual Measurement	Closed polygon, Free hand, Magic wand			X
	Threshold analysis	Auto thresholds, manual HSV thresholds, manual RGB thresholds. Threshold based segmentation into phases, basic measurements on phases.			X
	Threshold analysis	Threshold based segmentation into objects, advanced measurements on objects.			C&M Full
	Intensity profile	Methods: Over Time or Z-Stack Results: Ave., maximum, minimum, integration			X
	Export	Export to Excel (.xls)		X	X
	Export	Export to Olympus Workbook (.owb)			X
Windows	Layout	Switching of document layout		X	X
	Layout	Floating/docking of document group			X
	Customization	User customization of toolbar and menus		X	X
Reporting		Document compilation, image insertion, save, print, PDF/RTF export (do not support 64-bit office)			X
Software protection		Web based software protection	X	X	X
Color space		sRGB / Adobe RGB (DP72 DP73 compatible)	X	X	X
File formats		<Save/Load> JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, BMP, AVI, PNG, VSI (Virtual Slide Image), BigTIFF, PSD（Adobe photoshop) <Load only> GIFF, oif (Fluoview format), oib (Fluoview format), MRC (Medical Research Council), STK (Metamorph), FSX	X	X	X
Image View		Single Frame View/Title View		X	X
		Slice View			X
		Voxel View			5D or C&M Full

1: Three Point angle, four Point angle, Arbitrary Line, Closed polygon, Polyline and Perpendicular line only.

Appendix 3: cellSens 1.8 Supported Devices

cellSens Package			ENT	ST	DI
	Olympus DP®*	DP20, DP21, DP25, DP26, DP70, DP71, DP72, DP73, DP73WDR, DP80, TWAIN I/F	X	X	X
	OSIS	CC-12, Colorview I, Colorview II, Colorview III, Colorview IIIu, F-view II, XM10, XC10, XC30, XC50, UC30, UC50, SC20, SC30, SC100	X	X	X
	Hamamatsu*	ORCA® (03, 05, AG, ERG, R2, Flash 2.8), C9300			X
	Hamamatsu*	Orca Flash 4.0 ImageEM (C9100-13)			High-End Camera
	QImaging®*	Monochrome: Exi Blue/Aqua, RETIGA (Exi, SRV, 2000R, 2000RV, 4000R, 4000RV) QiClick plus RGB slider Color: Exi Aqua			X
		MicroPublisher 3.3 RTV/3.3 RTV cooled, MicroPublisher 5 RTV/5 RTV cooled		X	X
		RoleraTM Thunder			High-End Camera
	AndorTM*	iXon DU897 X3			High-End Camera
	Photometrics	CoolSnap HQ2			X
	Photometrics	Evolve 512 Delta			High-End Camera
	Jenoptik	ProgRes C3, ProgRes C5		X	X
Camera Control	Camera control	Live view, image acquisition, exposure time (Manual/Auto), exposure indicator, white balance, black balance (1), online shading correction (2), custom gray scale (3). [: Supported functions are dependent on the camera models as listed below (DP series).] 1: DP70, DP71, DP72. / 2: DP25 / *3: DP71, DP72, DP73	X	X	X
	Camera control	Autofocus (motorized Z focus is necessary)			X
	Display function	Zooming, panning, annotation, overlay, view/hide fluorescence channel, tile view/slice view, series image animation (play, stop, forward, reverse), frame extraction.	X	X	X
	Display function	Focus indicator, line profile, histogram (linear display/logarithmic display), information stamp, scale bar, memo.	X	X	X
Microscope Control	Microscope fames	IX83 ®(4), IX73 (4), BX63®, BX53, BX43, BX51, BX61, BX61WI, IX71, IX81, IX81-ZDC/ZDC2, SZX 9, SZX 10, SZXII 12, SZXII 16, MVX10, Manual microscope, manual stereo microscope.		X	X
	Motorized devices	IX3-CBH (4), IX3-CBM4, U-CB5S, U-CBF, BX3-CBH, BX3-CBM, BX3-SSU, BX3-SSU(RS232C), BX2-UCB, BX-REMCB, IX2-UCB, SZX-MDCU, SZX2-MDCU, DSU, IX3-DSU.		X	X
	OSIS motorized	cell^TIRF, MT20, USB-ODB converter.			X
	Devices	Real Time Controller (RTC), FCB			X
Microscope Control	Non-Olympus motorized devices	Shutter: Uniblitz shutter (VCM-D1, VMM-D1/D3)		X	X
		XY motorized stage: Prior (ProScan I, ProScan II, ProScan III, OptiScan, ES101EZ) Ludl (Mac 6000) Lang (Lstep serial, Lstep PCI) Objective Imaging (OASIS 4i) ITK (Corvus) Märzhäuser (Tango)			Multi-position
		Shutter, filter wheel and Z motor: Prior (ProScan I, ProScan II, ProScan III, OptiScan, ES101EZ) Ludl (Mac 6000) Shutter and filter wheel: Sutter (Lambda 10-3/Lambda 10-B) Z motor: Lang (Lstep serial, Lstep PCI) Objective Imaging (OASIS 4i)			X
		Fluorescence lamp: CoolLED precisExcite , EXFO X-Cite (120PC XL, exacte, XLED1)			X
	Device customization	Observation methods, hand switch, frame, soft keys		X	X

Appendix 4: cellSens 1.8 System Requirements

OS	Microsoft® Windows® Vista (32-bit) Ultimate with SP2 Microsoft® Windows® Vista (32-bit) Business with SP2 Windows® XP Professional (32-bit) with SP3 Windows® 7 (32-bit/64-bit) Ultimate with SP1 Windows® 7 (32-bit/64-bit) Professional with SP1
CPU	Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7, Intel Xeon(R) recommended for high speed image acquisition: QuadCo
RAM	4 GB recommended for high speed image acquisition: 8 GB or more
Graphic card	1280x1024 (min. 1024 x768) monitor resolution with 32-bit-video card with separate graphics memory (no integrated graphics processor with shared memory)
Ports	USB 2.0 port to connect devices to the system Fire Wire A to connect devices to the system (BX63, IX83 etc...) Serial (RS232) to connect devices to the system (BX61, IX81, SZX2-MDCU etc...)
HDD Space	1 GB for installation Performance of hard disk could be a limiting factor for image acquisition speed. Recommended for high speed image acquisition: SSD hard disk
Drive	DVD-ROM drive (for installation)
Web Browser	Recommended for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0

Note that the specifications above describe the requirements for proper software function. If computer controlled hardware is also connected to the microscope, the PC specifications also need to meet its requirements.

*cellSens, DP, Hamamatsu, QImaging, Andor cameras are not for clinical diagnostic use in the United States.

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