Software Products

3D Visualization

The Gatan 3D Visualization Software enables the viewing and interpretation of reconstructed 3D volumes. It is strongly recommended that this software be run on a computer equipped with a high-end graphics card (NVidia or ATI) and at least 2 GB of RAM. Specific features are:

  • Fully interactive and integrated with DigitalMicrograph
  • Memory Efficient Volume rendering
  • Memory Efficient Isosurface rendering
  • Orthogonal slicing
  • 3D line profiles
  • 3D ROI specification and extraction
  • Volume merging 
  • Simple Movie export (MPEG, AVI)

 
Image of interplanetary dust particle; STEM tilt series acquired with a Gatan 806 HAADF detector from -61� to 68� by Dr. Ilke Arslan of Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California and Dr. John P. Bradley of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; aligned, reconstructed and visualized using Gatan's 3D Reconstruction and 3D Visualization software; the iso-surfaces highlight two different intensity levels in the reconstruction. Image of phosphorus-containing macromolecular assemblies in the cell nuclei of Drosophila larvae; dual-axis EFTEM tilt series acquired with a Gatan Tridiem energy filter from -66� to 66� by Dr. Maria Aronova and Dr. Richard Leapman, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; for each axis phosphorus L-23 series (20eV slit, pre-edge and post-edge) were collected; a jump ratio series was calculated and the data were aligned and reconstructed using IMOD (University of Boulder, Colorado); finally, the reconstruction was rendered in the Gatan 3D Visualization software; the inset highlights a sub-volume extracted using the 3D Visualization ROI tool.

 

Product Requirements

 Product System Requirements  Suggested
Configuration 
3D Visualization 
  • DigitalMicrograph
    • Gatan Recommended graphics card1
      >200 GB free hard drive space

      1 Recommended Graphics Cards include recent high-end display cards from NVIDIA and ATI. Contact Gatan to confirm compatibility.