====== Perkin Elmer Plugin ======

**PlugIn to import/open PerkinElmer UltraViewRS and ERS RAW-files.**

===== Introduction =====


===== Author =====

**Arne. Seitz**

Advanced Light Microscopy Facility\\
European Molecular Biology Laboratory\\

Heidelberg

===== Features =====


===== Description =====

**PE Panel**

**
either Plugins-->PerkinElmer\\
or File -->Import
**

This opens a panel with four buttons. The functionality of each is described below.

** Open...**

This opens the raw files acquired with a PerkinElmer UltraView (E)RS. 

The parameters (e.g. number of channels, number of slices, number of time points) of the image series are read from the cfg/tim file. The raw-files are imported into a stack and afterwards automatically converted to an Image5D stack.

<note>
ATTENTION: If you created a time series of a large volume ImageJ might run out of memory! [[faq:technical:how_do_i_increase_the_memory_in_imagej|How to increase your memory]]
</note> 

**Z-project...**

This opens the raw files acquired with a PerkinElmer UltraView (E)RS.

The parameters (e.g. number of channels, number of slices, number of time points) of the image series are read from the cfg/tim file. The raw-files are imported into a stack and a Maximum Intensity Projection along the z-axis is performed for every time point and every channel. The resulting image-stack is converted to an Image5D stack.

** Batch Z-projection...**

You have to select a folder. The plugins works with all subfolders of this folder if they contain raw data from an PerkinElmer UltraView (E)RS. The images of every folder are opened, a maximum intensity projection along the z-axis is performed and the resulting stack (one image per channel and time point) is saved as TIFF-stack (if you checked the tick box for saving in addition you also have the option to convert the resulting stack to 8-Bit).

** File Info**

Opens a window where you can find the meta information to the loaded image. 

Just let me know if you have any ideas/needs for further plugins dealing with data import/handling of PerkinElmer UltraView (E)RS files.If you have problems in installing/using the plugins just let me know.

===== Installation =====

[[howto:plugins:how_to_install_a_plugin|See the general howto.]]

In addition to this plugin you also must have the [[../../imagej-documentation-wiki/plugins/image5d|Image5D]] plugin installed.

===== Download =====

[[http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/ExternalInfo/almf/htdocs/almf_website/html/PE_Plugins.htm|Download Plugin]]

===== License =====

no info available

===== Changelog =====

no info available

===== Known Bugs =====

Please also don't hesitate to report bugs:[[mailto:seitz@embl.de | bugreport/suggestions]]

 --- //[[seitz@embl.de|Arne Seitz]] 2008/09/24 15:33//