MBF Bioscience Unveils New Versions of Stereo Investigator, Neurolucida, and AutoNeuron

(WILLISTON, VT, USA) MBF Bioscience announces the release of new, enhanced versions of Stereo Investigator and Neurolucida, the global leaders of quantitative imaging solutions. Also enhanced is AutoNeuron®, Neurolucida’s advanced module for automated neuron reconstruction.

Stereo Investigator 8.0 click here
Stereo Investigator, recognized as the world’s leading system for unbiased stereology, handles the widest spectrum of researchers needs and now has enhanced support for confocal, multi-channel fluorescence, and brightfield microscopy. New workflow technology and probe interfaces assist with stereology, allowing researchers to be more productive. The unattended data collection and offline stereology feature enables image capture for analysis away from the microscope, and new mobile licensing allows the software to be moved between multiple workstations. Designed for compatibility with 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Vista®, version 8.0 enables researchers to load and work with larger images, image stacks, and virtual slides.

Offering the most comprehensive implementation of unbiased stereology methods available, featuring the optical fractionator, Stereo Investigator allows researchers to obtain efficient, precise, unbiased, and reliable quantification of the number and morphometric properties of biological structures.

Neurolucida 8.0 click here
MBF Bioscience has added numerous enhancements to Neurolucida, the gold standard for 3D neuron reconstructions. Improved 3D visualization, with the faster and smoother 3D solids module, provides researchers with the ability to rotate and view image stacks in real time. Other enhancements include the ability to transfer results directly into Microsoft Excel®. As with Stereo Investigator, the mobile licensing feature allows the software to be moved between multiple workstations.

The most advanced scientific software for performing brain mapping, neuron tracing, and morphometry, Neurolucida has the flexibility to handle data in many formats. Researchers can use live images from digital or video cameras; acquired images from confocal microscopes, electron microscopes, and scanning tomographic sources; or through the microscope oculars using MBF Bioscience’s patented Lucivid system.

AutoNeuron 3.0 click here
When combined with Neurolucida, AutoNeuron 3.0 performs automated neuron tracing in under a minute. With AutoNeuron, researchers can reconstruct neurons in 2D and 3D many times faster than manual tracing. Developed with the support of the National Institutes of Health, it rapidly explores the entire image volume and identifies neuronal processes and somas. Version 3.0 introduces an enhanced workflow with improved detection and 3D contouring of multiple somas, as well as advanced settings for branch connections and tracing guidance. AutoNeuron models neuronal trees as branching structures, complete with branch points, roots, and endings. Diameters of the axons and dendrites are automatically detected, and results can be transferred directly into an Excel spreadsheet.

About MBF Bioscience
For 20 years MBF Bioscience has provided researchers with leading microscopic image analysis systems and solutions. The MBF mission is to provide the best solutions and service to biological researchers worldwide to assist in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Through superior tools, expert technological advice, and dependable support we believe we can help researchers reach their objectives faster and more efficiently.

17 March 2008

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