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Huygens Essential: Image processing made easy




Easy to Install

Huygens runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

User Friendly

Automatic options and Wizards improve and analyze your images within minutes

High Quality Visualization

Visualize your data with the powerful slicer tools and 3D renderers

Scientific Analysis

Analyze your data with the Colocalization Analyzer, Object Analyzer or Object Tracker

Batch Processing

Batch deconvolve, restore, and analyze images with the Workflow Processor

Supports all common microscopes

Process images with their metadata from any microscope



Huygens Essential: Tailored for beginners and advanced users

Huygens Essential is part of the Huygens Software, tailored for easy deconvolution, restoration, and analysis of all your microscopy images. Deconvolution Express deconvolves all your images fully automatically, and the available Wizard can be used to guide you through the process of deconvolution. Huygens Essential is able to deconvolve a wide variety of 2D-5D images ranging from widefield images to multi-photon, spinning-disk, confocal, Array Detector, STED, VT-iSIM, Rescan, or light-sheet images. Comparison of raw and deconvolved results is facilitated with the dual 4D slicer tool, and powerful and fast 3D renderers produce high quality representations of your data. Based on the same image processing engine as Huygens Professional, Huygens Essential combines the quality and speed of the algorithms, also available in Professional, with the ease of use of a wizard-driven intelligent user interface. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and offering configurations for a computer-locked license, or Everywhere/Floating via a login, usage of Huygens Essential is extremely flexible!


Deconvolution: Accurately restore your images

Fully automated deconvolution via Deconvolution Express
Instant deconvolution acquired images with Huygens Batch Feeder
Optimal use of RAM, CPU, and GPU acceleration
Measure, store, and use an experimental Point Spread Function (PSF)
Automatic Background and Signal-to-noise estimation for deconvolution
On-the-fly deconvolution of Time Series and Multi Channel data
Handles up to 32 channels
Automatic correction for Spherical Aberration
Automatic Bleaching Effects correction
Optional Z-drift correction for high resolution data
Many File Formats are supported
One full year of maintenance and upgrades is included
Remote displaying with X11, VNC or RDP
Automatic or manual cropping in five dimensions (3D + time + channels)
Batch image restoration and analysis via interactive Workflow Processor
Various quantitative analysis options can be added to complete your experiment


Visualization: Explore your images in 3D

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
SFP Volume Renderer: Produces physically realistic 3D representations
Surface Renderer (optional): Easily visualize objects in your 3D data
Movie Maker (optional): Create sophisticated animations


Analysis options (optional): Get more from your images

Object Analyzer: Interactive analyis and tracking of 3D objects using advanced segmentation options, including AI segmentation based on Meta’s Segment Anything Model 2.

Colocalization Analyzer: Analyze and obtain quantitative information about the amount of spatial overlap between structures in different data channels, for 3D images and 3D-time series.

Object Tracker: Track and analyze moving objects over time


Tutorial and Download: Get started!

The tutorial movies allows you to get started with the different tools and options in Huygens Essential quickly. When you install the Huygens Suite on your computer, also feel free to try out our other products.

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