Imaris 6.3.0 Release Notes
Welcome to the Imaris 6.3.0 release notes. Version Date: May 04, 2009.
Please have a look to the Overview of Imaris Release notes for information about prior released features and fixed bugs.
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Imaris 6.3 allows faster (and smoother) zoom and pan. This works with ALL viewers: Slice, Section, Gallery, Surpass Volume, Surpass Ortho Slice, Surpass Oblique Slice, Surpass Surface Preview, Coloc

While panning (or zooming): Low resolution textures are used as long as there are no high resolution textures loaded.

Finished panning (or zooming): High resolution textures are loaded asynchronous (like google maps).
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Snapshot

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- The "Fit" button in Surpass now fits the bounding box of the scene to the border of the Surpass window. The illustration below shows the behavior of the "old fit" and the "new fit":

- A preview shows the expected result.
- "100% Snapshot" adjusts the width and the height of the snapshot. The resulting image will have a zoom factor of 1 (one pixel per voxel).
- Example: export an xy-slice from the slice-view in original resolution without a border:
- From "Predefined Dimensions" select "... x ... Dataset".
- Make sure that "Crop to fill whole snapshot area" is checked.
- Press "Fit" from the Imaris status bar.
- Press "..." to select an output file name.
- Hit "Do Snapshot"
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New File Readers |
- Compix: SimplePCI
- Gatan Digital Micrograph
- Prairie Technologies
- Compressed Openlab LIFF
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General |
- Image Prrocessing Performance
- Overall 15% faster
- Resample 3D is 5 times faster
- Improved Performance of Crop3D
- Collect Usage Data (user is asked to agree during the initial setup of Imaris)
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MeasurementPro |
Statistics Filtering

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- Objects can now be filtered by TWO thresholds
- If the lower threshold is checked, all objects above the threshold are selected.
- If the upper threshold is checked, all objects below the threshold are selected.
- If the lower and the upper threshold are checked, all the objects in between the thresholds are selected. If the value of the lower threshold is higher than the value of the upper threshold, all the objects outside are selected.
- If no thresholds are checked, all the objects are selected.
- If only one of the Thresholds is et to "automatic", a two means algorithm is used to calculate the threshod value
- If both thresholds are set to "automatic", a three means algorithm is used to compute the threshold values.
- The threshold mode is set to "manual" as soon as the user clicks into the histogram.
- Click with the left mouse button into the histogram changes the lower threshold.
- Click with the right mouse button into the histogram changes the upper threshold.
- The updated filter dialog is available for the creation wizards of Surfaces and Spots, and as filter tab for Surfaces, Spots and Filament.
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FilamentTracer |
Color Coding
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- The statistical values of dendrites and spines can be mapped as color to the according filament segments (similar to Surfaces and Spots).

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Statistics
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- A real branch level is introduced. In earlier Imaris versions there were already statistics values named "Level", but it was not the same as the level from the biological point of view - it was the tree depth from the graph theory. Therefore we renamed the old "Level" into "Depth"
- Dendrite Branch Level
- Dendrite Branch Depth
- Spine Branch Level
- Spine Branch Depth
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Time
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- Filaments for all time points within one surpass object:
- Easy Export of Statistics
- Common Filtering
- Common Color handling
- (tracking not yet implemented)
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44 Fixed Bugs (since Imaris 6.2.1) |
ID |
Summary |
3503 |
Large LSM time series are loaded corrupt |
3488 |
inconsistency between the parameter values in the screenshots and in the written text |
3471 |
Incomplete Imageprocessing with Multiple CPU's enabled.. |
3444 |
The name "level" is missleading (wrong) - rename it into "depth" |
3443 |
need branch level statistics |
3440 |
floating license des not work in combination with nodelocked license |
3437 |
"Error signature" when starting Imaris |
3435 |
LEI Thumbail requires refresh to display all files. |
3430 |
Imaris Batch crops allways to one time point |
3424 |
only subset of STK is loaded in 6.1.x-->6.2.x |
3421 |
Add Channels dimensions test gives wrong result after Resampling Open |
3415 |
Additional volume statistics needed |
3411 |
Creating a surface with no dataSet loaded crashes Imaris |
3393 |
Resampling Open: Crop plus Resample corrupts image pyramid |
3388 |
Crop 3D crashes (with 850 MB image) |
3376 |
Crash at about 75% loading a specific scene on OSX |
3375 |
Olympus Fluoview 2.0 OIB OIF can not be loaded |
3368 |
Add Channel Fails on Large XYZT data sets. |
3363 |
Resampling Open: Min Limit for Cropping does not work |
3332 |
Surfaces - Edit - Duplicate to All Time Points - non-functional |
3276 |
crop3d on huge image: black xy MIP (or crashes) |
3247 |
Units missing for Y axis of statistics graph (time plots) |
3244 |
SplitBranchHiearchy.m --> Integrate into Imaris |
3216 |
License file selector appears behind Imaris |
3187 |
installer error: FpBp.ocx failed to register |
3157 |
ImarisServer can not be registrered |
3149 |
missing units for frame axis labels |
3148 |
Missing units in status bar of slice and section view |
3125 |
Need statistics coded coloring for FilamentTracer |
3086 |
Output file name should include Leica .lei sub filename |
3024 |
Contour Surface: changing the draw mode has no effect unless moving to a new slice |
2990 |
documentation for track statistics unclear |
2942 |
crop 3d is very slow even for a small image (retina.ims) |
2929 |
Export Filament statistics off all time points to one file |
2765 |
Time animation of Slice viewer gives corrupt result |
2402 |
Shadow Projection slow and to bright if Frame Shadow is activated |
2381 |
Olympus OIF OIB LUT not loaded |
2345 |
Export of Spot statistics to Excel crashes Imaris |
2274 |
Read LSM file larger 2 GB |
1968 |
Coordinate Axis do not have X Y Z labels |
1527 |
Surpass Color Tab: there is no material palette |
1357 |
Group with global editing possibilities |
1345 |
Keyboard shortcuts to change selection mode... |
862 |
Statistics tabs units are always um |
Feedback |
Any feedback on the installation, and the usage of Imaris and its features are welcome. Please send your comments to eusupport@bitplane.com
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Last Modification: CL, 04-MAY-2009