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Micrograph image processing system

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We have developed a computer-driven image processing system for the analysis of STEM micrographs. Modern computer and data storage devices give the researcher the ability to record and store large numbers of images. Our system was designed to allow rapid viewing and to facilitate the measurement process. Making use of an IBM 4381-2 mainframe computer and a high resolution (1024 x 1280 pixels) Metheus Omega 500 display system, we have written a flexible, interactive system to display and process data from our electron microscopes. The system is menu-driven from a mouse and can call subroutines from fortran, pascal or APL.APL is an interpreted, interactive language that is particularly well suited to real time image processing. Algebraic manipulations can be performed with equal ease on arrays of any rank and the user can affect many complex operations on dataarrays, usually with a single line of code (e.g., gray scale expansion, zoom, inner and outer product, etc.).

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