Scientific Supercomputing at the NIH

Huygens
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Description

The Huygens Suite is a complete and easy to use microscopic image restoration (deconvolution) package. Whether applied to images from a wide field (conventional) microscopes, confocal microscopes, 2-photon microscopes, the software in The Huygens Suite will remove blur from your images, improve resolution and reduce noise. It is capable of recovering lost details in very noisy confocal images. Applied to wide field images it will drastically remove blur and improve resolution.

Version

After starting, navigate from the main window to Help → About.

How to Use

Type the following commands at the prompt to start the corresponding programs:

  • huygenspro -- Huygens Professional
  • huscript -- Huygens Scripting

Huygen requires an X-windows session. Click here for more information about X-Windows.

Documentation

Click on the 'Help' menu on the far right of the Huygens window after launching the application.

Web-accessible: SVI (Scientific Volume Imaging). Also see the SVI Support Knowledge Base. For access to the restricted online tutorials at the SVI wiki, contact staff@helix.nih.gov for the group login and password.