F1000Research (Feb 2021)

MosaicExplorerJ: Interactive stitching of terabyte-size tiled datasets from lightsheet microscopy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

  • Sébastien Tosi,
  • Lídia Bardia,
  • Maria Jose Barallobre,
  • Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia,
  • María Luisa Soto-Montenegro,
  • Julien Colombelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27112.2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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We introduce MosaicExplorerJ, an ImageJ macro to stitch 3D tiles from terabyte-size microscopy datasets organized on a regular 2D grid. As opposed to existing software, stitching does not require any prior information on the actual positions of the tiles, or conversion of raw TIFF images to a multi-resolution format for interactive exploration and fast processing. MosaicExplorerJ was specifically designed to process lightsheet microscopy datasets from optically cleared samples. It can handle multiple fluorescence channels, dual-sided lightsheet illumination and dual-sided camera detection.