[ome-devel] Getting some meta data

[Brian Loranger]

Hi Mathias,

Most of these are just special names for things that exist in the  
omero model already (see http://www.improvision.com/pdfs/technotes/ 
TN422.pdf) for details.

If I'm reading the improvision technotes correctly, the  
microncalibrations you're referring to are our pixelSizes in the OME  
model. These values will be automatically imported into the omero  
model if they are included in the file format and you can view them  
in insight under the image info.

The ChannelName is mapped to our logicalchannel.name field I believe.  
This would be similar to a channel annotation. Although I do set the  
logicalchannel.name in the database if its present, our design  
encourages users to put annotations on the channels, so don't think  
we've ever displayed the channelname in insight.

Values like 'BlackPoint' and 'WhiteColor' are cutoff values used by  
Volocity's rendering settings. We don't use those in omero.

Hope that helps,

Brian Loranger
Software Developer, Open Microscopy Environment
Division of Gene Regulation and Expression
University of Dundee



On 9 Jul 2008, at 10:21, Matthias Dunda wrote:

> Hi everybody!!!
>
> I just have a quick question regarding our Improvision Volocity  
> TIFF export.
>
> We have this meta information to fill in the special TIFF tag:
>
> BlackPoint
> ChannelName
> ChannelNo
> ImageName
> TimepointName
> TimepointNo
> TimeStamp
> TimeStampMicroseconds
> TotalChannels
> TotalTimepoints
> TotalZPlanes
> WhiteColour
> WhitePoint
> XCalibrationMicrons
> YCalibrationMicrons
> ZCalibrationMicrons
> ZPlane
>
> As far as we see from the importer, it does not make use of
>
> TimepointName
> TimepointNo
> TimeStamp
> TimeStampMicroseconds
> TotalTimepoints
> XCalibrationMicrons
> YCalibrationMicrons
> ZCalibrationMicrons
>
> I don't know if this information is outdated, but keep in mind we  
> are talking about Beta-2.3 so far. Can this kind of information be  
> entered by the user after the import - mainly the calibration microns?
>
> Another question: What exactly is the channel NAME and where is it  
> stored?
>
> Cheers
> Matthias
>
>
>
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