Xuv package for Imaris (http://www.xuvtools.org/)

Fast, reliable and automatic 3D alignment of confocal image stacks

Xuv tools is a free, open source and fully automated 3D stitching software for confocal microscopy images.

The goal of XuvTools is to provide tools, that combine multiple microscopic recordings to obtain a larger field of view (“stitching”) and a higher dynamic range (“HDR” recombination), or better resolution (multi view reconstruction) when working with multiple 3D confocal image stacks. XuvTools runs on Windows Linux and Mac computers and supports 32 and 64 bit operating systems (64 bit preferred).

Documentation

Papers and Talks on XuvTools

You can find our paper on stitching here:

M. Emmenlauer, O. Ronneberger, A. Ponti, P. Schwarb, A. Griffa, A. Filippi, R. Nitschke, W. Driever, and H. Burkhardt. XuvTools: free, fast and reliable stitching of large 3D datasets. Journal of Microscopy, 233(1):42–60, 2009

PDF on Publisher site (free access)
Abstract of the paper

We also presented stitching with XuvTools with the following posters:

M. Emmenlauer, O. Ronneberger, H. Burkhardt, A. Ponti, P. Schwarb, R. Nitschke, and W. Driever. XuvTools: Fast and reliable stitching of large 3D datasets. European Light Microscopy Initiative ELMI, 2008

PDF of the Poster

M. Emmenlauer and O. Ronneberger and M. Temerinac and H. Burkhardt and A. Filippi and R. Nitschke and W. Driever. Fast Automatic Recombination of Multiple 3D Datasets for Large Volumes and High Dynamic Range (HDR). 49th Symposium of the Society for Histochemistry, 2007

PDF of the Poster