| This comparison table is designed to highlight the main differences between MCID Core and MCID Analysis. |
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| Twain Compliant Interface |
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| Analog & Digital Camera Support (Mono & Color) |
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| Scanner Support |
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| Time Lapse Capture |
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| Playback image stack |
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| Set ROI, Flatfield Correction, Dark Field Correction |
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| Channel Management |
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| 16 independant image channels |
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| Channel linking for redirect sampling |
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| Large image format handling |
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| Image Stack handling for large image data sets |
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| Prebuilt Study Modes |
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| Densitometry: General, Receptor Binding, Glucose Uptake, Protein Synthesis, Regional Blood Flow |
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| Counting: Grain, Cell & Object counting based on color or greyscale thresholding and size / shape criteria |
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| Gel Analysis: Analyze Gel lanes & Western Blots, calibrate to distance, molecular weights. Create Gel lane profiles. Manual & Autolane tools. |
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| TLC Analysis: |
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| Arrays: Measure simple arrays, well plates, chemiluminescence experiments |
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| Stereology (Optional Module): Perform 2D & 3D stereology measurements including an optical fractionator wizard (*requires motorised stage) |
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| Stereology: Perform 2D & 3D stereology measurements, no optical fractionator. |
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| Automated Image Tiling (Optional Module): Create high resolution seamless images of multiple fields of view (XYZ) (* requires a motorised stage) |
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| Image Processing & Filtering |
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| Alignment Algorithms for correct aligment of image stacks |
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| Image Fusion, combine mutliple pseudo colored mono images to create RGB color images |
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| Image Focus, create single in focus images from mutliple focus image stacks |
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| Create Pseudo color LUT's for monochrome images |
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| Pan & Zoom images that are larger than the display screen using MCID Image MAP |
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| No Neighbour and Nearest Neighbour deconvolution |
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| Point Operatorations such as Image Addition, Subtraction, Arithmetic, Copy, Mask, Size & Rotate, Inversion, Flip etc |
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| Image processing filters such as Target Accentuate, Detail Extractor, Smooth, Enhancement, Erosion & Dilation, Opening & Closing, Edge detection (Using Sobel, Laplacian, Prewitt etc), Deconvolution, Pruning and many more. |
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| Customise Kernel size and edit image transform methods using our equation editor |
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| Calibration |
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| Density, calibrate to density standard, glucose uptake, protein synthesis & regional blood flow |
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| Create standard curves and export curve data, choose best fit options for curve type |
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| Gels, calibrate to molecular weights, spatial distance and OD's |
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| Store all calibration data within the MCID image format |
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| Image Sampling Tools |
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| Interactive sample tools: Freehand Draw, Square, Circle, Autoscan A & B, Ribbon, Template, Full Image Scan, Polygon, Line Measurements (straight, freehand), Angle, Gel Lane Tools (Vertical, Horizontal, Freehand and Rotation Lane) |
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| Pixel Data Histograms & Profiles |
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| Sample color data (intensity, hue & staturation or RGB) |
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| Threshold images based on Density or Color (can also be used with interactive sample tools) |
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| Colocaliszation Measurements |
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| Create custom labelling structure (Subject, Section, Region) for data labelling during sample session. Filter data based on these labels prior to export. |
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| Send data and image to the MCID report window to produce a quick report |
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| Export data to text based files such as CSV, Tab Delimeted |
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| Export data to Excel or Lotus 123 formats |
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| Copy and paste data directly into Windows programs such as Excel or Word. |
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| Image Annotation |
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| Add non destructive image overlays such as calibrated ruler, text markers, Calibration bars etc |
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| Add color LUT's to show Density data using a custom colors scale. |
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| Cut images from background and create new presentation images |
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| Export annotated image to RGB TIFF for import into powerpoint or other Windows® programs |
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| File Format Support |
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| Import images in MCID (.im), BRS, TIFF, TIFF5, and TIFF stacks, Fujix Bas (.inf), MD Gel (.gel), BioRad PA (.img), Packard (.tif), MD Dataset (.ds), In Cell 3000 (.frm) |
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| Export to TIFF (archive or presentation formats) |
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| Create AVI movie files fo cineloop animations |
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| Macro programming |
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| Automate repetitive tasks, simple drag and drop macro programming |
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| Hardware Support |
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| Analog & Digital Cameras |
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| Motorised Stage Control |
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| Filter Wheel Control |
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| Licensing |
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| Single Computer License |
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| Multiple Client Access License (concurrent user licensing) |
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