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Anchi Cheng, 06/06/2012 07:26 PM
Stage Position matrix calibration¶
You can skip this if you plan to do Modeled Stage Position calibration because it will save the result in this form as well.¶
Stage Position matrix calibrations can used to navigate at low magnifications (lower than
~1000x when accuracy of better than 2 um is not required. However, since the Modeled Stage
Position Rotation/Scale calibration also saves such matrix, this calibration is not necessary.
The procedure is provided here for reference.
How does matrix calibration work?
- Leginon/Presets Manager> Select the low mag preset for the calibration and send
its parameter to the microscope.
- Microscope> Make sure there are distinguishable features for cross correlation
in the range of movement to be used and that the beam is not clipping the area of the digital camera
acquisition. Removing the objective aperture may be necessary.
- Leginon/NodeSelector> select "Matrix" node.
- Acquire test image and change the Camera Configuration in "setting" window to values
that will produce a good image in a reasonable exposure time. Don't forget that
"Overwrite Preset" has to be checked if you want to change the Camera Configuration in
the node.
- Leginon/Matrix/Toolbar/Settings> select correlation method in the window. Phase
correlation is especially efficient in cases where periodic pattern exist. The pattern
often causes cross correlation peak search to misidentify the correct peak in the
multiple peak correlation map.
- Leginon/Matrix/Toolbar> select "stage position" as the Parameter and open the
"Parameter Setting" window.
- Leginon/Matrix/Matrix Settings> Change "Average # position" to a number 1+ (less
than 10 for a faster calibration). The value 1 will give a moderate to poor calibration.
Recommendations are as follow:
- Phase correlation
- Stage position
- Tolerance = 50%
- Shift fraction = 25%
- Average = 5
- Interval = 1.5e-05 meters
Because the measurements are variable depending of stage position, an averaging
technique is used to create a matrix that can be more generally applied to positions
over a greater range. A better method is to model the stage position ( http://emg.nysbc.org/publications/techreports/99-001/ ).
- Phase correlation
- Leginon/Matrix/Toolbar> left-click (Execute icon) to calibrate.
- The image should be shifting 10-30% of the imaging area. The images can be
monitored in Image Display Panel with display selection in image control panel set to
"image". The cross correlation and its peak can also be displayed. There has to be
recognizable imaging feature that moves with stage movement for good correlation at all
time for a good calibration. For example, if the CCD is covered completely by the grid
bar, the calibration will certainly fail.
- Use Navigation node to check the result of the calibration.
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Updated by Anchi Cheng over 12 years ago · 9 revisions