Advanced Image Calibration

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It is a normal run of data collection: You've acquired 600 images with your CCD camera. But there's something ominous yet to be done before your data are really useful: quantitative image calibration. Note: This Brief describes luminance calibration; spatial calibration is a different topic. Luminance calibration involves correction of instrumental signatures and effects like bias, dark current, and flat field corrections, removal of defective pixels and artifacts, and other tasks. And add to this complexity the fact that different data sources often require different calibration steps and strategies, and that some data sets require master calibration frames to be created each time. With all the details and endless variations, quantitative image calibration once boiled down to these options: 1) Perform hours of tedious, error-prone work, or 2) Create a script. Now, Mira breaks through this complexity by reducing it to a matter of checkboxes, buttons, and re-usable profiles. This feature is included in the Mira MX, Pro, and AP platforms. Of course, you also may create a script for processing that is too specialized or complex to be done using the Image Calibration package.