Zeiss LSM 510 Operating Manual

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INTRODUCTION TO LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPYUser Interface LSM 5105-10 B 40-051 e 07/98GalleryThe Gallery is used as an overview of the images available in memory and their contents. It is locatedjust below the Tool bar. Each small image represents a sequence. The middle slice of each imagesequence is shown. The status bar of each image shows the name. The name might be a number or astring.Every image sequence has its own channel colour assignment (see Display window). When an image iscopied the channel colour assignment is copied too. Drag and drop techniques can be applied to copyimages or define the function parameters Input and Output using the Gallery thumbnails. Position the cursor on an image in the Gallery. Press the left mouse button. Hold the mouse button down and move the mouse to the destination position. At the destination release the left mouse button, the destination image will be overwritten.To delete an image, drag it, move it to the wastebasket, and drop it.5.2.3 Display WindowThis window is used to display an image sequence, regardless of size or type. To show multiple channelsequences each channel could have its own base colour. The user can set these colours and theweighting for each channel by pressing the corresponding button at the bottom of the window. Todisplay a different image or image sequence, it can be dragged from the Gallery and dropped to theDisplay window.The image can be displayed in full size (one pixel on the screen represents one pixel of the image) or in azoomed size. To zoom the display view click and hold down the right mouse button on the windowborder and resize the window. The aspect ratio of the image will not be changed. Clicking on the buttonresets the Display window to a full size view of the image (see above).The title bar shows the currently displayed sequence name. The status bar displays the size of the currentsequence and the selected slice on the left. On the right the cursor position within the window and thecorresponding intensity (grey) value of each channel is shown.The Display window can be closed without any effect to the image processing functions. If no Displaywindow is opened select the entry Display in the Window menu.The scroll bar at the lower right of the window enables to show the images in a sequence. The rangereaches from one to the maximum slice provided by the current sequence.