V3D enables real-time 3D visualization and quantitative analysis of large-scale biological image data sets.

ABSTRACT: The V3D system provides three-dimensional (3D) visualization of gigabyte-sized microscopy image stacks in real time on current laptops and desktops. V3D streamlines the online analysis, measurement and proofreading of complicated image patterns by combining ergonomic functions for selecting a location in an image directly in 3D space and for displaying biological measurements, such as from fluorescent probes, using the overlaid surface objects. V3D runs on all major computer platforms and can be enhanced by software plug-ins to address specific biological problems. To demonstrate this extensibility, we built a V3D-based application, V3D-Neuron, to reconstruct complex 3D neuronal structures from high-resolution brain images. V3D-Neuron can precisely digitize the morphology of a single neuro

SUBMITTER: Peng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2857929 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature