Free scanning electron microscopy software for mac

The Virtual Microscope is a Java application that supports interactive viewing of high-resolution, multi-dimensional image datasets from various microscopes.

The Virtual Microscope is a tool that supports data from a Philips Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM), and a Fluorescence Light Microscope.

Interface Controls
The interface provides a simulation of our actual microscope interface(s). Controls common to all datasets include brightness, magnification (usually up to 1800x), navigation, measurement, and annotation. SEM samples include a contrast control, and some also include a focus control.

The navigation and magnification controls allow the user to explore any point of interest on the sample. This differs from other virtual microscopes that have been produced which provide only a few hot spots that can be magnified and explored.

Focus
The focus control is a real focal plane adjustment instead of a blurring of the image. Our automated data capture software (see below) allows us to capture an arbitrary number of focal planes. Thus, the focus control on the Virtual Microscope allows the user to glide through those planes interactively, bringing items closer and farther into focus. This is particularly useful with thick specimens viewed in the SEM.

Annotations
We have included a full set of specimen annotation tools so that experts and laypeople alike can mark up the datasets for future reference. These annotations are useful for teaching details about the data, as well as for allowing teachers to ask students to identify data features as homework. The annotations can be saved and reloaded as XML files.

Automated Data Collection
It can take thousands of images to fully describe a single specimen so that the user can explore any point at varying magnifications with multiple focal planes. As a result, some our datasets are many gigabytes (GB) in size. In order to accurately and sanely collect this data, we have written various software programs that automatically control the instruments.

The Bugscope Connection
The software for our SEM is based off of a work on a previous project called Bugscope. Bugscope is an online educational outreach project that provides real-time access to our SEM over the web so that school children can look at bugs from their own backyards.

We have leveraged the remote-control software we wrote for Bugscope into an automated data-collection package for the SEM. On the Light Microscope, we are using Openlab, and will be distributing our tiling scripts in case you have a similar system.

Specimen IDs
Each Virtual Microscope specimen gets its own unique specimen identification number. For those building new samples, click the button below to generate a new specimen ID. Generated IDs expire after two months, so dont grab one until you need it. When specimens are submitted, we will verify they have a valid ID automatically.

Scan Lines introduces artificial scan lines into your clip, making it appear like early-day computer graphics and arcade machines. This plug lets you define the scan lines thickness, opacity and separation. And since we are at it, we also let you define the scan lines color.
Use Scan Lines whenever you want to introduce some stylish, but otherwise not very useful scan line effects or other regular horizontal lines into your clip.
Main features:
- area of effect: define the area of the clip you want to be affected by the plug-in. all other parts or the clip remain untouched.
- line color: this specifies the color that the scan lines are drawn in.
- separation: this tells the plug how far apart the scan lines should be generated.
- thickness: this defines the thickness of the scan lines
- opacity: this slider controls how transparent the scan lines are.

Scan Again is a very useful tool if you have an older or used scanner that you want to use, and the manufacturer doesn’t have drivers for your operating system, one solution is to use the open-source SANE routines.

These were originally developed for Linux, but work on other operating systems, including Mac OS X.

I had this problem with an HP scanner I picked up at a rummage sale, and was able to get it to work using SANE. The trouble was that the SANE utilities are all command-line, and I got tired of typing.

I decided to make a GUI shell to interface with the command-line utilities, and I did this using RealBasic .

The resulting program runs the command-line utilities for you. It searches for scanners, putting the results into a pop-up at the top of the window ( see screen shot ).

It then interrogates the selected scanner for available options, and populates the spinners and pop-ups with the options available for the given scanner.

hping2 is an interactive packet costructor and responses analyzer that uses the same CLI of the ping program (but with a lot of extensions).
hping2 can be used to performs a lot of tasks, like testing of firewall rules, (spoofed) port scanning, et cetera.
The interface is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isnt only able to send ICMP echo requests.
hping2 supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other features.
hping2 is multi-platform and works on the following OSs: Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Windows.

Main features:
- Firewall testing
- Advanced port scanning
- Network testing, using different protocols, TOS, fragmentation
- Manual path MTU discovery
- Advanced traceroute, under all the supported protocols
- Remote OS fingerprinting
- Remote uptime guessing
- TCP/IP stacks auditing
- hping can also be useful to students that are learning TCP/IP.

Epson Scan to File 1.00E is a distinguished and tractable application for Mac OS X that allows you to scan and save images from EPSON scanners.

ScanCalc is a handy utility for determining the size of scanned images. It works similar to the "New Document" dialog in Adobe Photoshop. You specify the height and width of the original and the percent of enlargement/reduction and ScanCalc will tell you the disk space needed for the scan.
This can be helpful if youre having a service bureau scan some slides for you and you need to know how many removable cartridges to send. Its also useful if youre concerned about image size and want to see the difference between scanning an image at 300 DPI versus 400 DPI.
ScanCalc also functions as a proportional wheel: enter in a new height or width and ScanCalc will show you the percentage of enlargement/reduction. ScanCalc works with several measurement systems, including inches, points, and metric.
Main features:
- Simple
- Handy log for recording multiple measurements
- Can memorize frequently used picture sizes.
Enhancements:
- Logging and favorite sizes were added.

realone recorder records the RealOne (.ram) files from a web page opened in the frontmost window of Safari.
It uses WireTap to record and RealOne to play. Point your Safari browser to the page which contains the links to the .ram files, start the RealOne Recorder application.

Select the working folder where all the files will be saved. After scanning of input file is terminated click on the Go button.