All articles filed in December 2016
Surface sampling in Scanbox
Answering a request from colleagues in London, the upcoming version of the Scanbox firmware will allow users to change the depth of imaging on a line-by-line basis. Up to now, during volumetric imaging, users were allowed to change the setting of the electronically tunable lens (ETL) once per frame (during the transition from one frame to another). The…
Read MoreScanbox and me on a boring afternoon
What do you do on a boring afternoon with a two-photon microscope? Looking at small stuff of course! All these guys are from the Carolina mixed pollen grains slide.
Read MoreDisabling Knobby’s automatic reset
[Note: please do not use this feature yet — there are some bugs that need to be worked out. I will keep you posted.] Up to now starting a new Scanbox session from Matlab causes knobby will auto-reset, bringing all the position counters back to zero and clearing all its position memories. This is done because…
Read MoreNew Features in Scanbox 3.4
The latest release adds a few new features and fixes. A new panel called “Deadband & Alignment” offers the option to change some of the configuration variables on the fly. The deadband sliders allow to dynamically change the size of the left and right margins respectively, where the laser is blanked out. You can optionally…
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