About the company
Experts in Microscopic Imaging
Started in 1994 Scientific Volume Imaging is the sole independent company in the world that offers high quality restoration (deconvolution) and analysis software for confocal, widefield & brightfield, Spinning disc and Multi-photon microscopy with fully automatic depth-dependent PSF measurement as well as bead based PSF measurement, You can work with multiple images each up to 32 channels plus time series. Huygens offers various stand-alone solutions, web solutions and plugins.
Epifluorescence image of a Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cell (Invitrogen Floucells #1 prepared slide) deconvolved with a experimental multi-channel point spread function. The before and after deconvolution images were merged side by side to display the power of deconvolution. Courtesy of Drs. Jeff Tucker and Holly Ruthledge, Fluorescence Microscopy and Imaging Center&Microarray Group, NIEHS - NIH, USA.
Beautiful and true images are easily made with a host of visualization tools in Huygens like the Moviemaker, Ortho and Twin slicers, and the Volume, MIP, and Surface renderers.
Synaptonemal complex 3 in a diplotene mouse spermatocyte. 4Pi microscope rendered with the Surface Renderer in Huygens. Courtesy of Dr. Gert van Cappellen. Dept Reproduction & Development, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
Our very easy to use fully wizard-based restoration package Huygens Essential is the task guided deconvolution package which keeps the user focused on their dataset to get out all information.
The deconvolution package Huygens Professional also deconvolves via a wizard, or via one single command in the operations window or via Scripting giving a wealth of choices.
Batchprocessing is included in both giving you the easy opportunity to deconvolve large batches automatically at a time your system is free of other jobs and all run on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Doing deconvolution via the web for up to hundred(s) users? No problem with the Huygens Core working as a powerful compute engine using web oriented interfaces like the HRM. Made for and by biologists and physicists working on a day to day basis in image facilities you'll get exactly what you need.
The Huygens Plug-in offers a reliable one button deconvolution for many users of OEM systems so that the outcome of their data improves with a simple click.
SVI's restoration, visualization and analysis tools enable our customers to obtain and publish high quality results from nearly all types of microscopical images. Our products are used by researchers and scientists worldwide.
Mission statement
To provide reliable, high quality, easy to use image processing tools for scientists working in light microscopy. Together with a dedicated team in close contact with the international scientific microscopic community, we continuously improve our software, keeping it at the forefront of technology.
History
Scientific Volume Imaging SVI was started in 1994 by Dr. Hans van der Voort who is also nowadays one of the driving forces behind the Huygens software.
SVI could make a good start by capitalising on his experience in developing software for microscopic imaging at the University of Amsterdam and the name Huygens for the software was used to honour the Dutch Scientist Christiaan Huygens. Quickly other talented programmers joined him to speed up programming and expand the available software for more microscopic techniques. Cooperations were sought with other companies developing state of the art software for microscopists.
As deconvolution was still a novel field at the beginning of the nineties of the last century SVI's clients were often pioneers in imaging in life-sciences and the software was developed for them and with them as their comments and requests were leading in the development of Huygens.
This tradition is kept sacred by SVI and will be upheld in the future. Also now SVI developers works closely together with pioneering groups in imaging and biological science throughout the world, both directly and in various daring imaging projects partly funded by Science Foundations and the European Union.
Results from those cooperations can be found in all SVI software so also in its most widespread software package Huygens Essential. Introduced in 2000 so that also the novel user could deconvolve image stacks very easily, it soon became a great success as deconvolution suddenly became an easy matter.
Since 2003, next to its long standing experience in deconvolution on many different platforms, SVI took major steps into adding visualisation and analysis software as a logical next step for its users of Huygens Deconvolution resulting in a full solution now for questions microscopist may have.
