Neurolucida 8.0 - Highlights

View and Analyze Multi-Gigabyte Images

  • With Microsoft Vista® 64-bit and Vista 32-bit, load and work with larger images, image stacks, and virtual slides

Transfer Neuron Reconstruction Analyses Results into Microsoft Excel®

  • Export your Neurolucida Explorer or stereology results directly into Microsoft Excel. Results are properly formatted and can be exported from Excel into other programs and documents

Mobile Licensing

  • Quickly move your license key between multiple workstations within the lab or work from a remote location

Faster and Smoother 3D Solids Module

  • Image stacks can be dynamically rotated and viewed in real-time using GPU (graphics processing unit) rendering
  • Contour Skin Surface loads faster and now supports multiple contours on any serial section
  • Added a surface smoothness setting for trees and contours
  • Export to solid model graphics to Wavefront .OBJ files
  • Improved transparency mapping and contour quality

AutoNeuron®

  • Improve multiple soma detection and contouring in 3D
  • Advanced settings for branch connections and tracing guidance
  • Automatic projection
  • Select from multiple channels
  • Adjustable gap width for connecting nearby branches
  • Improved Workflow interface

Intelligent Macro View

  • Macro View made smarter – Adjusts window size to contain only visible tracing objects — hidden and out-of-section objects are disregarded
  • Intuitive zooming —left-click and drag a box to zoom in; right-click to zoom out

Camera Integration

  • Link a filter device to a camera, automatically change the filter from color to monochrome, and back again
  • Switch between color and monochrome modes with a single mouse click

More Powerful Device Command Sequences

  • View the most recently run device command sequence
  • The device state field now displays the device’s current state
  • List the device command sequences in the order you choose

Improved Multichannel Features

  • Open and close a shutter right from the toolbar
  • Save and select camera presets based on your current lens and last run commands
  • New option to acquire multi-channel image stacks one stack at a time

Support for New Hardware Devices Including…

  • Optronics Microcast® HD 1080p High Definition Video camera
  • Spectral Applied Research Procyon Laser Merge Module for laser illumination
  • Leica DM(I), Nikon 90i and Nikon 80i automated microscope stands
  • Cooke Sensicam QE and EM and Cooke PCO cameras

Additional Improvement

  • Marker toolbar names automatically match the markers loaded from your .INI file
  • Support for Improvision files
  • Improved Orthoview Window
  • New Diagnostic Window added to assist in support troubleshooting
  • Flipping objects and sections only affects the X and Y coordinates; Z coordinates do not change
  • Paste selected objects as floating objects, making final placement easier
  • Change a contour into a cell body and a cell body into a contour
  • Associate objectives and lenses with the Zeiss AxioImager and AxioObserver-when the objective changes, so does the lens
  • Improved scale bars
  • New and improved online help

For more information about Neurolucida, call MBF Bioscience at 802.288.9290 or click here to request a price quotation.