Go further in visualizing and understanding your life sciences data

Amira is a powerful, multifaceted 3D software platform for visualizing, manipulating, and understanding data from computed tomography, microscopy, MRI, and many other imaging modalities.

Amira offers optional specialized extensions, which respectively address different specific applications, ranging from advanced neuroscience studies, to immersive virtual reality

Conveniently load 3D or 4D+ data from over 140 file formats (powered by Bio-Formats, in cooperation with Glencoe Software). Researchers can now read data from the latest microscopes with the most current version of supported proprietary file formats.

This extension offers specialized modules to analyze images obtained from CT or MR imaging. Diffusion weighted MR imaging (DWI) is used to image the rate of water diffusion in tissues like brain or muscle. This extension allows the user to compute the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), fractional anisotropy (FA), and directionally encoded color (DEC) maps. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) aims at localizing and visualizing fiber tracts in the human or primate brain and is supported by several modules. Brain perfusion analysis is supported based on tracking a contrast bolus in a time series of MR or CT images.

This extension combines Amira’s strong capabilities for 3D data visualization, such as hardware-accelerated volume rendering, with specific tools for molecular visualization and analysis, such as molecular surfaces, sequence alignment, configuration density computation and molecule trajectory animation. Due to Amira’s innovative user interface, using the features of this extension is easy. The XMolecular extension comes with self-running demos and step-by-step tutorials for the most common molecular visualization tasks.

This extension provides advanced tools for image enhancement, simplified and automated segmentation, extensive measurement and quantification of objects, cells, and tissue features.More Info…

This extension allows you to compute the precise internal displacement and strain maps from 3D images of objects acquired during a deformation process.

This extension allows detection and tracing of filaments or tube-like structures in very noisy images, enabling, for instance, analysis of actin fibers or microtubules in electron tomograms.

This extension enables analyzing, visualizing, and presenting numerical solutions from Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, in applications such as biomechanics. XWind enhances the Amira XMesh extension with model export and simulation results import for major formats. It also adds advanced post-processing of these simulation results.

This extension allows Amira to deal with large data sets that exceed the available main memory, e.g., on computers with only a small amount of RAM or when using a 32-bit operating system. Using volumes of interest and multi-resolution technology, the XLVolume extension overcomes these limitations and allows interactive visualization and processing of large data volumes. Depending on the available resources, this extension allows exploration of image volumes greater than 8 GB, and has been successfully tested with data sets larger than 300 GB.

This extension allows you to extend Amira by developing custom data types, visualization or processing modules, and input/output routines through a well-documented C++ API. The object-oriented language together with the open design makes this extension the ideal answer to specific technical requirements.

This extension allows for characterization and modeling of a set of connected areas, with spheres and lines representing those areas and their connections.