Question

I have noticed that you have several "multi-angle" scans on your web site. We would like to create the same thing for our use in-house. How can we do this?

Answer

In uScope Navigator 4.3 and earlier, this must be done manually.

You must have completed several scans (of the same ROI) at different analyzer angles and created the associated deep zoom images.

The DeepZoom-??? folders for each angle must be copied into a new folder structure that appears as follows:

Scan-Name
   DZDirInfo.xml
   MIDZ.html
   Angle01
      DZThumbnail.jpg
      DZThumbnail_sq.jpg
      DZInfo.xml
      DZViewer.xml
      DZOutput.xml
      DZOutput_files
      uS-Overview.jpg
      uS-Key.jpg
   Angle02
     (same as Angle01 above)
   Angle03
     (same as Angle01 above)

Scan-Name Folder

The root folder of your multi-angle scan (Scan-Name in this example) contains the following files:

DeepZoom Angle Folders

These folders contain the deep zoom images for each angle. They contain the following files:

Creating the Multi-Angle Deep Zoom Folder

Follow these steps when creating the multi-angle deep zoom folder structure.

1. Create the new folder with a meaningful name (like the name of your scanned slide). We use Scan-Name for illustration purposes.
2. If you completed scans at 0°, 45°, and 90°, you should have three deep zoom image sets.
   • Copy the 0° DeepZoom-??? folder contents into the Angle01 folder.
   • Copy the 45° DeepZoom-??? folder contents into the Angle02 folder.
   • Copy the 90° DeepZoom-??? folder contents into the Angle03 folder.

   Note
   The Angle folders must be named Angle01, Angle02, Angle03, and so on. The suffix (01, 02, 03) are merely an index and do not reflect the angle of the scan.

3. Copy the MIDZ.html image viewer into the Scan-Name folder.

   Note
   You must request an updated MIDZ.html that supports multi-angle viewing from our technical support department.

4. Create the DZDirInfo.xml file in the Scan-Name folder using the following template.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <DZDirInfo xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
     <AngleCount>3</AngleCount>
     <AngleList>0,45,90</AngleList>
   </DZDirInfo>
   

   • Change the text between the AngleCount tags to indicate the number of angles in this image (3 in our example).
   • Change the text between the AngleList tags to a comma-separated list of the angle measures. Use BF for bright-field.

When all of the above steps are completed you should be able to launch MIDZ.html and view the multi-angle deep zoom images.