Thermo Fisher MAPS viewer for electron microscopy data

The Maps Viewer is installed on all VMs

Book a virtual image processing machine

virtual machines

Open the virtual image processing machine

Go to your project to the folder Raw_Data

choose your experiment number and open the folder

Open the project with a double mouse click on Project.mapsxml

If this warning appears always click on "Update History"

Data area organized in layers and tilesets. The active objects are highlighted.

Imaging settings organized in different tabs.

Tools

Viewer

choose the tileset you want to adjust

Click on the Tab "visualization"

"Show histogram"

adjust the upper and the lower threshold for the histogram

Navigate intuitively in your data

Annotate regions of interest

Go to "View", "hide all annotations" to hide the grid bars and annotations.

This can also be done with the Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + h

These tools measure distances and angles

Use this tool to make screenshots

The screenshots are saved in the Maps project base folder

Click on a single tile in a tileset.

In the lower left corner the tile coordinate/ name is shown.

Right click on the tile to get more options.

Go for the tile and choose the option " open tile image folder, if you want access to the raw data.

The file explorer opens the folder with the raw .tif images.

Maps can only open projects in a second window, that have already been opened before.

Go to "FIle" -> "open"

Choose a second project from the list of projects, that you opened before

Choose open in offline Viewer

Maps opens a second window with the chosen project