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Leveraging Virtual Reality for Immersive Segmentation and Analysis of Cryo-Electron Tomography Data
Published on: January 24, 2025
Reconstruction and exploration of three-dimensional confocal microscopy data in an immersive virtual environment
Zhuming Ai1, Xue Chen, Mary Rasmussen
1VRMedLab, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1919 W. Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60612-7249, USA. zai@uic.edu
Abstract:
An immersive virtual environment for interactive three-dimensional reconstruction and exploration of confocal microscopy data is presented. For some structures automatic alignment of serial sections can lead to geometric distortions. The superior visual feedback of a Virtual Reality system is used to aid in registering and aligning serial sections interactively. An ImmersaDesk Virtual Reality display system is used for display and interaction with the volumetric confocal data. Detailed methods for handling both single-section and multi-section confocal data are described.
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