How can Aphelion™ be used in conjunction with an optical or electronic microscope?
In optical microscopy, Aphelion™ will usually be used with a standard frame grabber and a camera mounted on top of the microscope. The Aphelion™ Stage Control Module will allow to control the motion of the stage in X, Y and Z directions. Moreover, the Aphelion™ Morphological and Analysis Toolkits will permit to process images and to provide a set of measurements such as shape, texture, size, etc. Graphics can be generated inside Aphelion™, or exported through an OLE communication to Excel. Most of the new Scanning Electronic Microscopes (SEMs) can now generate TIFF images. Importing these images in Aphelion™ is straightforward. For older generation SEMs, special hardware is available to interface the device with a PC, with drivers and ActiveX components. Functions of the ActiveX control can then be called from an Aphelion™ macro.
