Why do you have to configure the system?
After successfully installing your software you will need to first configure your image analysis system, then calibrate it. Only then will you be ready to acquire high quality and well calibrated images.
Prerequisite: During the installation of the RADIUS software, you selected the microscope and the cameras that are mounted on your transmission electron microscope.
Process flow of the configuration
About the system configuration
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Process flow of the configuration
To set up your system, the following steps are necessary:
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Specifying which hardware is available
Your software has to know which hardware components your microscope is equipped with. Only these hardware components can be controlled by the software. In the Acquire > Devices > Device List dialog box, you select the hardware components that are available on your microscope.
Configuring the interfaces
Use the Acquire > Devices > Interfaces command, to configure the interfaces between your microscope or other motorized components, and the PC on which your software runs. Normally, the interfaces will automatically be configured properly.
Configuring the specified hardware
Usually various different devices, such as a camera, a microscope and/or a stage, will belong to your system. Use the Acquire > Devices > Device Settings... dialog box to configure the connected devices so that they can be correctly actuated by your software.
Additionally, you will find all camera settings in the Device Settings dialog box. You can find an overview of the possible camera settings here.
Calibrating the system
When all of the hardware components have been registered with your software and have been configured, the functioning of the system is already ensured. However, it's only really easy to work with the system and to acquire top quality images, when you have calibrated your software. The detailed information that helps you to make optimal acquisitions, will then be available.
Your software offers a wizard that will help you while you go through the individual calibration processes. Use the Acquire > Calibrations... command to start the software wizard.
You can find more information on this dialog box here.
About the system configuration
When do you have to configure the system?
You will only need to completely configure and calibrate your system anew when you have installed the software on your PC for the first time, and then start it. When you later change the way your microscope is equipped, you will only need to change the configuration of certain hardware components, and possibly also recalibrate them.
Necessary user rights for the system configuration
To be able to configure the system, you have to be logged in to your software with administrator or power user rights. If you have installed the software yourself you will automatically have been assigned Administrator rights.
All users have administrator rights by default. Use the Tools > User Rights... command, if you want to restrict the rights for individual users.
You can find more information on user rights here.
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