Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope: Operating a $500k Microscope for Free

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• Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope Operating a
  500k Microscope for Free

Glenn Fried Imaging Technology Group
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Project Goals
To provide students with the experience of
operating a high resolution scanning electron
microscope for free.
To provide students with the ability to explore
microscopic samples
Tongue Ridges of a Housefly
Tarsus and Claws of a Housefly
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Project scope

• User Interface
• Steve Cvetko, Ben Grosser
• Data Collection
• Glenn Fried, Dean Karres, Scott Robinson, Daniel
  Weber
• Data Manipulation
• Steve Cvetko, Ben Grosser
• Help Manuals and Training Video
• Scott Robinson, Chas Conway, Josie Wiegel, Megan
  Gillette, Carl Burton, Janet Sinn-Hanlon, Ben
  Grosser

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User Interface
Virtual SEM
Real ESEM
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Data Collection
7 images Z
26 images X
19 images Y

• 3,458 images
• 11 hours
• 5 images per minute

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Specimen
Layer
Magnification
Row
Image
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Specimen
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Magnification
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Specimen
Layer
Magnification
Row
Image
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Help pages
Training Animation
Sample preparation video
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General viewer for large 3D Data sets
Microscopy Data MRI Data Maps Computational
Data
Benjamin Williams https//www-s.life.uiuc.edu/hist
o/tile/
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NASA Funding
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Your own VSEM

• Pick up CD
• Read me file

To run the VSEM, copy the VSEM directory to your
hard drive, and double-click on the file called
run.bat. (If you are running this on a platform
other than Windows, see the README file inside of
the VSEM directory). You will need a recent Java
Runtime (JRE) from java.sun.com to run the VSEM.
To run the supporting documents, you will need
a recent browser, Quicktime 5 or later, and the
Flash player plug in. --enjoy Imaging
Technology Group Beckman Institute for Advanced
Science and Tech. University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

• http//www.itg.uiuc.edu/technology/virtual_microsc
  opy/

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