Dr. Simon Vipoir

Who is Simon Vipoir?

Hi there and welcome to my support page - my name is Dr. Simon Vipoir and I am here to help you to achieve the highest publication-quality results with your PerkinElmer Cellular Imaging and Analysis products. I have an extensive background in scientific research and I specialize in cellular imaging and analysis. All of the articles on this page are written by me and are inspired by conversations with my peers and colleagues, questions from my students, my own personal experience and of course you, my eager readers, so if there is anything that you would like to see featured here then please let me know.

Latest Tips

Movie making in Volocity: a video tutorial

Hi folks,

Well, I have something a bit different for you this month. As my tips that include aspects of movie making always go down well, I have decided to go back to basics and show you how to make your own movie in Volocity from...Read More

How do I make a movie that shows tracking of objects over time?

Everyone loves a good movie and a question that I am frequently asked is how I make movies in Volocity that show tracking of objects as they move in time. These movies help to give a more detailed insight into biological processes and they are great for incorporating...Read More

Create a movie which plays through your Z planes at a chosen XY angle.

A couple of weeks ago, one of my colleagues asked me how he could create a movie in Volocity which would allow him to play through his Z-stack in the 3D planes view using a chosen XY angle, as he wanted...Read More

Minimizing axial elongation of structures

I have a short tip for you this month, inspired by a conversation with one of my grad students.

In our lab, we use fluorescent beads to test the performance and calibration of our system and to measuring point spread functions (PSFs) to model the behaviour of light. The...Read More

Tips Archive

Title	Creation Date
Movie making in Volocity: a video tutorial	11th June 2010
How do I make a movie that shows tracking of objects over time?	18th May 2010
Create a movie which plays through your Z planes at a chosen XY angle.	14th April 2010
Minimizing axial elongation of structures	17th March 2010
Acquiring reference images	19th February 2010
How to set up an Acquisition Rule in Volocity 5.3	14th January 2010
Making a movie of a timepoint sequence in Volocity in three easy steps!	27th October 2009
Dr. Vipoir demonstrates ratiometric acquisition	19th August 2009
Colocalization in Volocity 5.2	22nd July 2009
64-bit makes my life 4 billion times better!	9th April 2009
Graphics cards and Volocity	17th February 2009
Upgrading to Volocity 5	4th December 2008
Using the UltraVIEW VoX - no laser light getting to the sample?	16th October 2008
Upgrading to ILS 2.0 from older versions	19th September 2008
Using the Improvision License Server 2.0	13th August 2008
How to transfer Volocity preferences between different user accounts on Mac OS X and Windows.	24th April 2008
Unlocking Volocity LE and Using the XYZ Planes View	7th February 2008
Supported File Formats in Volocity	28th September 2007
FRAP Plugin - Volocity Spinning Disk Confocal	22nd August 2007
Dr Vipoir has a look at spinning disk technology	22nd June 2007
Movies and Bookmarks in Volocity 4	14th February 2007
Analysing and charting trends and patterns in Volocity 4	10th January 2007
Dr Vipoir Processes in Batches	13th November 2006
Tracking in Volocity 4	17th October 2006
A sneak preview of Volocity 4	20th September 2006
Reduce the photobleaching and damage to living cells	15th August 2006
Making movies in Volocity	14th June 2006
Exporting profiling data in Openlab 5	24th May 2006
Making your images presentable with Openlab	23rd March 2006
What can you do with Volocity LE?	24th February 2006
How to set up a simple acquisition with an XY stage in Volocity	17th January 2006
Calibrating and Acquiring images with the OptiGrid	12th October 2005
Colocalization in Volocity	1st September 2005
Automator Subroutines	22nd July 2005
Image saving in Openlab automations	10th June 2005
How to set up a timelapse acquisition experiment with Volocity Acquisition.	9th May 2005
Slicing in Volocity	18th April 2005
Charting tracks in Volocity 3	15th March 2005
What's new about tracking in Volocity 3	3rd February 2005
How to transfer preferences on Mac OS X	1st December 2004
Switching between items in a Library.	3rd November 2004
Identify and measure objects in an image document.	11th November 2003
Have you forgotten your OS X password?	3rd September 2003
Changing Opacity and Automated Composite Merging.	29th July 2003
Making QuickTime movies with Volocity 2.	9th June 2003
Classified information.	7th May 2003
Fret not, the new Openlab FRET module is here!	2nd April 2003
Colocalization encounters of the Session Arithmetic kind	3rd March 2003
Tracking made easy with Volocity 2.	11th February 2003
Burning CDs	18th December 2002
The Ultimate X,Y,Z Automation	20th November 2002
Dr Vipoir Vs The dreaded Gremlins	20th October 2002
Parallel processing and "Key wait" combo	19th September 2002
Openlab 3 Automator	19th August 2002
Charting automation	19th July 2002
Saving LIFF files	19th June 2002

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