Imaris 8 Release Notes

Welcome to the Imaris 8 release notes. Please have a look to the overview of Imaris Release notes for information about prior released features and fixed bugs.

Important Note: Imaris 8 supports only 64 bit operating systems (Windows, Mac). Support for 32-bit is discontinued. Also support for Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.6 is discontinued (Imaris might run on these systems but we cannot guarantee its stability of performance).

Version Date: November 17, 2014

Arena

Learn more about the Arena view with our new tutorial guide and video demonstration here.

Imaris 8 is a Desktop-Batch-System for Management and Analysis of Images and Batch Results. The new Arena viewer is the control-center.

3 main Imaris views
	Arena for managing and grouping images, controlling Batch runs, and compiling results for Vantage.
	Surpass for inspecting images in XYZ and time (slice, section, gallery, volume), and validating segmentation results.
	Vantage for analyzing results, and comparing objects and statistics derived from multiple sets of images.
Main Arena Items
	Group images for Batch, contains all associated results.
	Creation Parameters contain the batch protocol for calculating Spots, Surfaces, Cells, and Filements. Can be executed on a group of images.
	Batch can be started by a right-click on Creation Parameters.
	Surpass Object Collection contains calculated objects (e.g. Spots) and statistics from the images in the group.
	The Vantage Plot contains the settings to display one or more collections of objects as plot in Vantage.

Batch and Vantage are Imaris add-on modules and require a license.

General

• Filaments are batchable
• Dark Theme for labs where bright light from a monitor disturbs the experiments. Native OS theme can be activated from menu "Edit / Preferences / Display / Colors / User Interface Theme".
• Opt-in floating license: When enabled Imaris will prompt user at startup, which additional floating licenses (modules) in addition to the base licenses the user likes to use. In order to enable the dialog, start the Imaris Administrator (menu "Edit / preferences / Licenses / Imaris Administrator"), and check the option "Show floating license selection dialog upon start of Imaris". If a user always wants to check out only the base licenses, he can suppress the dialog from the license preferences.
• Supporting Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
• Support for 32-bit is discontinued. Also support for Windows XP and Max OS X 10.6 is disconinued (Imaris maybe runs on these systems at your own risk).
• Windows only: Thumbnailextractor is discontinued (extension for Windows Explorer)
• New Imaris Program Icon:
• The Imaris Area View is powered by BisQue - Bio-Image Semantic Query User Environment.

Imaris 8.0.1

Version Date: December 12, 2014