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Each stage of the colorization process of an image of erythrocytes (red blood cells) using Mountains® 7.3 is shown above. Only one mouse click is necessary to pass from one step to another, whereas previously the same operation would have taken hours using photo editing software.

Abstract:
The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) is widely used in various fields of industry and science because it is one of the most versatile imaging and measurement instruments. SEMs allow users to see details 1,000 times smaller than a conventional microscope.

Digital Surf launches revolutionary SEM image colorization

Besançon, France | Posted on January 26th, 2016

On the downside, images obtained by SEMs are two-dimensional and black and white (this is of course normal, as SEMs use electrons and not photons - or light rays - for visualization).

To make SEM images easier to interpret by the human eye, researchers spend hours "colorizing" their images manually before publishing them (in general, readers like a red blood cell to be red!)

As from Jan 25, 2016, the international scientific and industrial community will have at its disposal a new tool developed by Digital Surf, Mountains® 7.3 software, which will enable colorization of an object with just one click of the mouse.

Behind this new easy-to-use and seemingly “magic” tool, Mountains® 7.3 software performs over 30 successive mathematical operations in order to distinguish different objects in the image.

In the previous 7.2 version of the software, Digital Surf had already made it possible for SEM users to turn their 2D images into 3D models, an operation that requires hundreds of billions of instructions for a microprocessor.

Digital Surf is now the only company on the market to provide a comprehensive software solution for processing SEM images, as well as single all-in-one software solution for analyzing data (surfaces and images) obtained by any type of microscope.

Digital Surf’s partners, including some of the leading SEM manufacturers, will now be able to deliver this new ground-breaking version of the software to their users worldwide.

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About Digital Surf
Digital Surf has been developing surface imaging & metrology software for profilers and microscopes since 1989.

Digital Surf's main focus is on working as a partner and co-developer with surface imaging & metrology instrument manufacturers worldwide. Mountains® 7 software technology is now offered by the majority of profiler and microscope manufacturers and is embedded in their equipment or available as an option.

Digital Surf also provides software packages to instrument users under the trademark MountainsMap® when required.

Mountains® has an installed base of 10,000+ licenses worldwide, works in over 10 languages, supports ISO and national metrology standards, and is supplied by 40+ instrument manufacturers wordwide.

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Contacts:
Clare Jamet
Technical Marketing Specialist
Digital Surf
16 rue Lavoisier
25000 Besancon, France
+33 3 81 50 48 00

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