Together with several research groups (see co-author list below), SVI has published an article and cover in the September issue of Microscopy Today on "Restoration of Light Sheet Multi-View Data with the Huygens Fusion and Deconvolution Wizard". The article describes the Huygens Fusion and Deconvolution Wizard, which is a unique integrated solution for deconvolving light sheet microscopy images from various kinds of light sheet systems. Detailed descriptions are given of the fusion of multi-views of the specimen, processing of deskewed of data, and image deconvolution. Examples show significant improvements in image signal and resolution of more than 1.5-2 times.

You can access this Microscopy Today September issue for free: here. Authors: Peter J. Verveer (1), Vincent T.G. Schoonderwoert (1), Denis Ressnikoff (2), Shane D. Elliott (3), Kiefer D. van Teutem (1), Tobias C. Walther (3) and Hans T.M. van der Voort (1)

1 Scientific Volume Imaging bv, Marathon 9E, 1213PE, Hilversum, The Netherlands 2 CIQLE, Centre d’imagerie quantitative Lyon-Est, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France 3 Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard University, Boston, MA

For more information on our Light Sheet Fusion and Deconvolution Wizard you can visit this online wiki page or request a free trial license by downloading Huygens.

Mid July 2020 we launched Huygens Everywhere.

What is Huygens Everywhere?

• A new way to use your Huygens Essential, Professional or Localizer everywhere.
• Huygens Everywhere runs on any computer with an internet connection.
• Simple login with your personal username and password.
• Obtain more resolution, contrast, full de-noising out of your light microscopic images.
• Your Huygens results stay with you on your own computers or own central locations.
• For researchers who want to use Huygens freely at home or in the lab with full web-support and Huygens access on all hardware.
• Huygens customers with valid maintenance contracts get free of charge until January 1, 2021 a Huygens Everywhere account.

STEDYCON & HUYGENS: super-resolution scaled up - featuring Huygens Stitcher Date : June 4, 2020 Starting time: 3:30 PM CEST End time: 4:30 PM CEST

Sign up now for this webinar in collaboration with Abberior Instruments: STEDYCON & HUYGENS: super-resolution scaled up - featuring Huygens Stitcher.

For more information on the Huygens Stitcher for all your microscopy data types, please visit this webpage

You can register here for the Abberior-Huygens webinar.

We are very proud that we could contributed with HUYGENS to many research articles on Corona related research. Below is a selection of publications and preprints that have been made available online:

....and more

We like to congratulate James Jonkman, Claire M. Brown, Graham D. Wright, Kurt Anderson and Alison J. North with the publication of their review paper in Nature Protocols on quantitative confocal microscopy. A huge piece of work and a great contribution to the field of microscopy.

See here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-020-0313-9

SVI is of course very pleased that Huygens is well acknowledged as the software that uses powerful algorithms and has deconvolution specifically designed for many different kinds of microscopes (including CLSM, Spinning Disk, multi-photon, Airyscan, STED, etc.).

The article correctly states that manually setting the SNR and background parameters for deconvolution needs some experience. The benefit of this: it makes Huygens unique in its handling of both low and high signal image data from all types of microcopes.

Huygens new options such as Deconvolution Express and Batch Express allow fully automated deconvolution of all types of microscopy images.

View here the WEBINAR on Batch Express.

The image of Howard Vindin (Weiss Lab, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney), which won the 1st prize in the Huygens Image Contest 2019, has been selected for the cover of the March issue of The Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society (AMMS).

You can view all the Huygens Image Contest prize winners here: https://svi.nl/ImageContestWinners

To download the March issue of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society (AMMS), you need to be a member: https://microscopy.org.au/login/

With the help of many research groups and imaging facilities worldwide, we have published Huygens Localizer in this Microscopy Today March issue. This article summarizes all the advantages of using Huygens Localizer for 2D and 3D SMLM (PALM, STORM, GSDIM, PAINT) analysis, and compares its performance, accuracy and precision with the most commonly used package ThunderSTORM.

This article could not have been made without the help of many research groups that contributed with images and with suggestions during the development of Huygens Localizer. Special thanks to groups at the University of Helsinki, the ALMF - EMBL Heidelberg, the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, and the University of Calgary (see also the "Acknowledgements" paragraph).

View the Microscopy Today March2020 issue or download the PDF online

As everybody the corona crisis shocked our team and we hope for the recovery of those affected by Covid19.

We want to assure our customers and relations that the Huygens team stays ready to support you fully. In case you need to work from home ask a temporary Huygens for Home license via https://svi.nl/LicenseRequest or https://svi.nl/LicenseRequest-chinees. In case you have support or product questions contact sales at svi.nl or support at svi.nl

Are you working from home due to the Corona measures, and do you have limited or no access to your image processing workstation/server at the lab or facility? SVI would like to offer researchers a temporary Huygens license (Huygens@Home) for their personal laptop or PC. Huygens@Home will work on CPU only and CPU and GPU NVidia laptops and PC's.

For all customers outside China, visit Request a license here, and state in the field "Department" your department or lab name also: 'Huygens@Home' .

For our Chinese customers: visit Request a license here, and state in the field "Department" your department or lab name also: 'Huygens@Home' .

During this webinar, we will address image enhancement techniques vs true deconvolution, which is the exact reverse of the optical imaging process which distorts your image data (convolution).

Click here for more details and registration.