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Getting Started

  • Computer Considerations
  • Computer Power Configuration
  • Software Installation
  • Launching Navigate
  • Configuring Navigate
  • Acquiring Data
  • Smart Acquisition Routines

User Guide

  • Supported Hardware
  • Supported File Formats
  • User Interface Walkthrough
  • Setting Up a Microscope
    • Microscope Coordinate System
    • Advanced Configuration
    • Multiple Cameras
    • Signal-to-Noise Visualization Mode
  • Acquiring Data
  • Case Studies

Development

  • Contributing Guidelines
  • Developer Install
  • Software Architecture
  • Developer Architecture Concepts
  • Feature Container
  • REST API
  • Plugin Architecture
  • Adding New Hardware

Troubleshooting & Known Issues

  • Troubleshooting
  • Known Issues

Plugins

  • navigate Plugin Template
  • navigate Confocal Projection
  • navigate at Scale
  • navigate Constant Velocity Acquisition
  • navigate MMCore
  • navigate ilastik Server
  • navigate Photoactivation

Reference

  • Implemented Microscopes
  • Software API
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Setting Up a Microscope

This section covers software-level microscope setup, including coordinate conventions, configuration files, multi-camera operation, and SNR map setup.

  • Microscope Coordinate System
    • Problem And Motivation
    • Standard Light-Sheet Microscope
    • Multi-Sided Microscope Variants
    • Oblique-Plane Microscopes
  • Advanced Configuration
    • Before You Continue
    • Configuration Files At A Glance
    • Safe Editing Notes
    • Microscope Configurations
    • Microscope Inheritance
    • Microscope Hardware Specification
    • Experiment File
    • Waveform Constants File
    • Waveform Templates File
    • REST API Configuration File
    • Post-Edit Validation Checklist
  • Multiple Cameras
    • Enabling Multi-Camera Operation
    • Disabling Multi-Camera Operation
  • Signal-to-Noise Visualization Mode
    • Acquiring Offset And Variance Maps
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