Iridium Ultra - Digital Imaging
The Iridium Ultra Digital Imaging system uses the microscope’s external beam control interface to acquire images. Digital images acquired by Iridium Ultra have many advantages over images acquired locally on the microscope: Image resolutions from 64x64 to 4096x4096 can be acquired. Images can be shared easily with other applications, such as word processors, for report generation. Images can be exported to standard file formats (BMP, TIFF, JPEG, and many more). Complete Image Processing is provided, including convolution filters, histogram equalization, etc. Feature and Particle Analysis are provided and integrated with Iridium Ultra.
The Digital Imaging is built inside the EDS electronics (Model 550i). In one compact system, our Digital Imaging interacts with our EDS software allowing for "active" beam control. X-ray Mapping, Spot Mode and specific beam control functions are all greatly enhanced by having the two tied together. 4096x4096 pixel, 12-bit imaging brings even the oldest SEM into the world's latest PC platform technology.
- Brightness, Contrast, and color palette adjustments
- Display of image gray level histogram
- AC line voltage synchronization
- Crop/Zoom Images
- Ability to acquire non-square images
- Image pixel averaging: 2, 4, 8, or 16
- Image Frame Averaging
- Acquisition of gray scale in 12-bit resolution
- Display images at 24-bit color resolution (16.7 million colors)
- Image file browser displays "thumbnail" view of files for easy selection
- Annotate images with a variety of sophisticated interactive measurement tools
- Import images from a variety of image formats (TIFF, JPEG, and many more)
- Multi-point analysis, for unattended spectral data collection, and processing from selected points on the SEM Image
- Adjustable Micron Marker, Magnification, and kV displayed on image
- Imaging hardware and software calibrated to SEM magnification
- Interactive Help System steps user through various analytical techniques
Iridium Ultra - Image Processing
- Image processing steps are stored with the image macro recorder
- Border particle removal
- Particle sorting by dimensional criteria
- Particle exclusion by feature measurements
- Particle classification by chemical composition (EDS data)
- Electron-beam control for feature scanning or spot-mode analysis
- Histogram equalization
- User definable kernels of 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 and 9x9 formats
- Erosion, dilation, hole filling, and skeletonization
- Smoothing, sharpening, median filtering
- Sobel, Laplace, vertical, and horizontal edge filtering
- Binarization of images
- Morphological processing for rapid feature size measurements
- Customizable report generation including histograms and scatter plots
- All data, including the image and EDS spectra, are stored in database
- 24 feature measurement functions with specific criteria capabilities
- Wizard approach for macro recording of the above features