You can find our paper on stitching here:

• M. Emmenlauer, O. Ronneberger, A. Ponti, P. Schwarb, A. Griffa, A. Filippi, R. Nitschke, W. Driever, and H. Burkhardt. XuvTools: free, fast and reliable stitching of large 3D datasets. Journal of Microscopy, 233(1):42–60, 2009
  • PDF on Publisher site (free access)
  • Abstract of the paper

We also presented stitching with XuvTools with the following posters:

• M. Emmenlauer, O. Ronneberger, H. Burkhardt, A. Ponti, P. Schwarb, R. Nitschke, and W. Driever. XuvTools: Fast and reliable stitching of large 3D datasets. European Light Microscopy Initiative ELMI, 2008
  • Poster pdf

• M. Emmenlauer and O. Ronneberger and M. Temerinac and H. Burkhardt and A. Filippi and R. Nitschke and W. Driever. Fast Automatic Recombination of Multiple 3D Datasets for Large Volumes and High Dynamic Range (HDR). 49th Symposium of the Society for Histochemistry, 2007
  • Poster pdf

• M. Emmenlauer. Fast, reliable and automatic 3D alignment of confocal image stacks: Practical. UTSA Workshop for Imaging in Neuron Biology, 2010
  • Talk pdf

A very condensed collection of XuvTools specifics and operation on one page. Includes some notes on microscope setup, and some general facts.

• XuvTools-Cheatsheet_2010-04-29.pdf

• Download Video Tutorial 1 in Flash file format: XuvStitch-08.07.24-Worm5-test03.swf, 24MB (24750634 bytes)
• Download Video Tutorial 1 in AVI file format: XuvStitch-08.07.24-Worm5-test03.avi, 96MB (99546118 bytes)

• Download Video Tutorial 2 in Flash file format: XuvStitch-09.12.06-FlavioDarkborder-stitching02.swf, 9MB (8831417 bytes)
• Download Video Tutorial 2 in AVI file format: XuvStitch-09.12.06-FlavioDarkborder-stitching02.avi, 117MB (122529686 bytes)

• Download Video Tutorial 3 in Flash file format: XuvStitch-09.12.06-TG52-stitching_with_gridlayout02.swf, 20MB (20301934 bytes)
• Download Video Tutorial 3 in AVI file format: XuvStitch-09.12.06-TG52-stitching_with_gridlayout02.avi, 102MB (106697330 bytes)

Test data sets can be found on the datasets page.