Connect Toolkit The Correlative Imaging Experience in Life Science
Ideal for versatile correlative imaging, the Connect Toolkit enables multi-modal acquisition on ZEISS imaging systems, providing intuitive alignment and registration tools. Stay focused on the big picture.
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Multi-scale Perspective for New Insights
Unlock New Insights with Multimodal Perspectives at Different Scales
Correlative microscopy gives unparalleled insights into your specimen. Leveraging light, and electron microscopes, the Connect Toolkit facilitates such experiments with pre-defined configurations for standard sample holders, precise calibration procedures to align stages, and the capability to display imaging data of various scales. Elevate your imaging experience and gain a comprehensive understanding of your samples with the Connect Toolkit.
Correlative cryo dataset in ZEISS ZEN Connect
Effortless Sample Navigation
Keep a Good Overview of the Bigger Image During Acquisition
Maintaining a broad perspective during imaging experiments is always beneficial. The correlative viewer offers guided navigation by displaying the overview images of all relevant parts of your sample. During detailed acquisition, use the viewer to easily and promptly move the stage to all sample parts of interest.
Automated slide scanning and detailed studies on other ZEISS microscope systems combined in a ZEN Connect project
Smart Data Organisation
Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
The Connect Toolkit helps you organize your data in a clever way. Why make your work unnecessarily complicated with a large set of imaging files that sit in a folder? Forget about manual data organization and difficulty accessing these files. With the Connect Toolkit keep all your images in context in an overarching data container. Thanks to easy navigation, every single image is only one click away directly within the Connect Toolkit.
Calibration and Alignment Methods in Connect Toolkit
Correlative microscopy involves multiple modalities, each typically requiring stage calibration or alignment. The Connect Toolkit provides several methods for the positioning of a sample before and after acquisition, which contributes to the optimal imaging results. The next section provides an overview of the available methods.
Connect base vs. Connect toolkit
Some basic correlative functions are already available in the base ZEN installation. The Connect toolkit, on the other hand, provides all existing correlative functions. This table serves as a reference of the features in Connect Base vs. Connect Toolkit.
Connect base
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Connect toolkit
|
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Correlative viewer / project |
x |
x |
Align / Align system |
x |
x |
Auto-registration with calibrated stage |
x |
x |
CZI image acquisition / import |
x |
x |
Stage control from viewer |
x |
x |
Align two images in 3D |
requires 3D toolkit |
requires 3D toolkit |
Measurements in correlative viewer |
|
x |
Regions definition and retrieval (on second system) |
|
x |
Shuttle & Find |
|
x |
Alignment Wizards / 3D (z-dimension) alignment |
|
x |
Bioformats & FIB stack image import |
|
x |
Extended image / movie export (project view, SerialEM) |
|
x |