chalk tip #5: displaying scale axes and grid

Did you know?  In ImageScope, you can display scale axes and/or a measurement grid overlaid on a digital slide image.

To display axes, go to the ImageScope toolbar and click the show/hide scale axes button, which looks like this:

Click button to toggle axes

The translucent axes will be displayed around the outside of the window:

          The scale of the axes is adjusted as the image is zoomed

To display a measurement grid, select Axes+Grid from the toolbar button’s drop-down menu:

Click button to toggle grid

The measurement grid will be overlaid on the window:

          The scale of the grid is adjusted as the image is zoomed

The grid also works beautifully for fluorescence images:

I find that I leave the axes enabled all the time – they’re useful as well as looking cool :) – and I toggle the grid on whenever I need to estimate the size of objects on a slide.