Huygens Products: Scientifically accurate image restoration and analysis
Available in many flavors
Offering single and multi-user as well as web-based solutions
User Friendly
Easy to use, and easy to learn
High Quality Visualization
Visualize your data with the powerful slicer tools or 3D renderers
Scientific Analysis
Analyze your data with the Colocalization Analyzer, Object Analyzer or Object Tracker
Advanced Restoration
Correct major factors distorting image quality
Fast performance
Efficient parallelization for optimal performance on CPUs and GPUs!
Huygens Software: Deconvolve, visualize, restore and analyze your microscope images
The Huygens Software is named after Christiaan Huygens, who studied and described the diffraction of light waves. The Software includes many image processing options, for brightfield and all types of fluorescence microscopy images. With Huygens it is possible to perform image deconvolution and restoration, interactive analysis and volume visualization in 2D, 3D, multi-channel and time. Additional Server and GPU-based Options ensure maximization of hardware performance. Do you want to know more about Huygens? Please click the buttons below. Feel free to download the software and request a trial license!
Different flavors: Tailored solutions for your needs
The Huygens software comes in different flavors: Essential, Professional, Core, Localizer, offering solutions for both single users and multi-user facilities. If equipped with Huygens Everywhere, Essential, Professional and Localizer can be used on any computer, at anyplace and at anytime, using a login. Huygens Core is for massive image processing via a command-line interface (CLI), shell window, or via the web-based interface Huygens Remote Manager. Via both the CLI and HRM interface, complete image processing pipelines can be executed in batch-mode. Huygens and additional options are available as a node-locked license, leased license, and as a Everywhere/floating license configuration.
Deconvolution options: Specific for your microscope type
Huygens offers many deconvolution options suited for your needs.
Each deconvolution option is specifically designed to take into account the optical properties of that type of microscope for
Widefield and Brightfield option
Spinning Disk option
Multi Photon option
Re-scan Confocal option
Huygens STED 3X option
Light Sheet option
Visitech VT-iSIM
Array Detector Confocal option
Performance options: Use your CPU and GPU for fast results
The Huygens Software is well known for its fast processing and high-quality deconvolution results. With the GPU acceleration and CPU options you obtain the same high-quality results, yet even faster! Realize amazing deconvolution results within seconds using high-end NVIDIA GPU cards and the powerful Huygens deconvolution algorithms. We offer the following performance packages and GPU options:
Performance Option: Support for using up to 16 CPU cores and 1 Small GPU card.
Performance Plus (optional): Allows use of up to 32 CPU cores and 2 Large GPU cards.
Performance Mega (optional): Allows use of up to 64 CPU cores and 4 Large GPU cards.
Performance Extreme (optional): Allows use of up to 128 CPU cores and 8 Large GPU cards.
Small GPU: Use up to 2048 CUDA cores and 6GB VIDEORAM.
Medium GPU (optional): Use up to 6144 CUDA cores and 8GB VIDEORAM.
Large GPU (optional): Use up to 12800 CUDA cores and 24GB VIDEORAM.
Extreme GPU (optional): Use up to 24576 CUDA cores and 24GB VIDEORAM.
Ultimate GPU (optional): Use up to 49152 CUDA cores and 24GB VIDEORAM.
Restoration options: correct your images
For other major factors distorting image quality like Hot pixels, Instability, Chromatic Aberration and Cross Talk we have developed the following Restoration Tools and Options:
Image Quality Control: Check your image for common pitfalls and get a full quality report.
Hot & Cold Pixel remover: For abberant pixel-free images ready for deconvolution.
Bleaching Corrector: Estimate and correct the fading of the emission intensity of the sample under study.
Object Stabilizer (optional): Stabilize movement of objects in your time series images.
Stitcher (optional): Automatically align and stitch tiles of 2D, 3D, and 3D-time multi channel images.
Crosstalk Corrector (optional): Easily correct for crosstalk in multi channel images.
Chromatic Aberration Corrector (optional): Correct shift, rotation and nonlinear distortions between different channels.
Fusion Wizard (optional): Deconvolve and fuse multiple views into a single superior image for SPIM/Lightsheet microscopy.
Visualization options: explore your images in 3D
The various Visualization Tools in Huygens Essential and Professional help you to visualize and analyze your image in detail.
Twin Slicer: easy comparison of original and deconvolved data.
Ortho Slicer: visualize your data in all orthogonal directions simultaneously.
Gallery Tool: view frames in a gallery style view
Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) renderer: efficiently visualize large 3D datasets.
Twin MIP renderer: compare 3D volumes side-by-side.
SFP Volume Renderer: produces physically realistic 3D representations of your data.
Surface Renderer (optional): easily visualize objects in your 3D data.
Movie Maker (optional): create sophisticated animations of your multi-channel 3D images.
Analysis options: get more from your images
The following interactive analysis tools are available for Huygens to accurately perform 3D-4D measurements, and to obtain and export statistics about object(s), colocalization, and cell/object trajectories:
Object Analyzer (optional): The interactive object analyzer tool for 3D microscopy images.
Colocalization Analyzer (optional): Analyze and obtain quantitative information about the amount of spatial overlap between structures in different data channels, for 2D-3D images and 3D-time series.
Object Tracker (optional): Track and analyze moving objects over time.
Functional options: there are more possibilities
Within the Huygens software there are many tools and options available to deconvolve your images faster, easier, and more efficient, and there are many options for extending the possibilities to process your microscopic images:
Deconvolution Express: Deconvolve your images with just one click of a button.
Batch Feeder: Deconvolve all your newly acquired images from one folder fully automatically, and upon saving.
Workflow Processor: Perform batch image processing with specifically designed workflows. Fast performance with multi GPU support.
Operations window: Interactively control the available operations you can apply to images in Huygens Professional.
Time Series (optional): Allows automated deconvolution of time series.
Full File Reader (optional): Support for extended input file formats.
PSF Distiller (optional): Obtain a distilled PSF from bead images.
Huygens LAS AF/X data exchange (optional): Integrated data exchange between Huygens and LAS AF/X.
Cross platform support: Huygens on your OS
Our software is based on cross platform technology, which makes SVI one of the few software companies in the microscopy field that have their software available on all major platforms. All our applications have the same look and feel on all platforms, except where the differences are created by the window manager of the operating system that is being used.
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