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Channel Settings is one (1) of the four (4) Display Settings sections. This section lets you adjust the appearance of each channel on the currently - displayed image. The adjustments applied here only changes change how the image is shown in the image panel Image Viewer and will do not change the underlying data on the image.

Interface

The channel display settings is found in the Display settings panel in Aivia Channel Settings panel is at the very toptop of the column to the right of the Image Viewer by default. The Channel Settings table header contains controls that applies apply to the whole image whereas , and each table row contains controls that applies apply to just that the corresponding channel. An example of the channel display settings Channel Settings table is shown below:.

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Table header

The table header contains descriptions labels for each column on the display table as well as global display options on for the image. The three (3) buttons in the table header are the following:

Table row

Each table row in the channel display settings Channel Settings table represents a single channel on the displayed image. The background color of each row corresponds to the specified channel color on in the Color column of the table. Each row can be controlled independently to adjust the display settings of each channel. There are five (5) controls:

Using the

Channel Settings panel

The Channel display settings will be Settings are active whenever you have an image loaded and displayed in Aivia. The software automatically populates the table based on the number of channels that are on the image and the channel color(s).

Set

channel visibility

Each channel Channels can be set to show or hide separately by clicking on the Toggle Visibility icon to shown and hidden individually with the Show/Hide Channel icons to the left of its nametheir names. The Show/Hide Channel icon has two states:

Additionally, you can show or /hide all channels by clicking on the Toggle channels visibility icon on Show/Hide All Channels icon in the table header.

Change render mode

You can specify the rendering mode for channels in 3D view View by clicking on the icon associated with the selected item in the View column. Clicking on the icon will bring up a list of render mode options that are available for the selected item. There are three (3) options:

Rendering Mode	Icon	Description
Maximum projectionProjection	Image Modified	Sets rendering to Maximum intensity projection Intensity Projection mode
Composite volumeVolume	Image Modified	Sets rendering to Composite volume Volume mode
Preview surfaceSurface	Image Modified	Sets rendering to Preview surface Surface mode

Once a new rendering mode is selected, the displayed image will refresh refreshes automatically to reflect the new selection.

A comparison between the three rendering mode displays are (3) rendering modes is shown below:.

Change channel color

You can change the channel color display by clicking on the icon (or colored rectangle) associated with the selected channel in the Color column. Clicking on the icon will bring brings up a color picker menu, which allows you to specify a different color. 

The basic color picker Basic Color Picker (see right) is the default mode where you will be presented color picker, which presents a number of standard colors to choose from.

When you click on the Advanced button on the basic color pickerBasic Color Picker, the Advanced color picker Color Picker will be shown (see right). Click or drag the slider on the right to specify the desired hue (color) and click anywhere on the main display to specify the saturation and brightness desired. Alternately, you can also specify a color by entering the hexadecimal color code in the textbox below the main display.Additionally, you can apply a preset pseudo-color palette on the displayed image channel through the expanded Lookup table (LUT) controls. Information on how to apply pseudo-color palettes to the image can be found in the LUT page

Additional LUT mapping and color options are available in the Advanced Coloring menu, which is found in the right-click menu of each channel-name cell in the Channel Settings table. The Advanced Coloring > LUT Mappings menu contains a variety of LUT mappings that you may choose from.

Change display brightness

For channels, you You can adjust the displayed brightness of the display channels using the lookup table (LUT) function built into the channel display settings. The lookup table Channel Settings. An LUT control is circled in red to the right. It is located in the channel display settings with one There is one (1) pair of controls for each channel. When you hover over the a control, the cursor changes into a left-right arrow, and you can click and drag the cursor control to the left or right to modify the displayed dynamic range. This action will does not alter the pixel/voxel values on the imagesimage, merely the brightness of the displayed image.

You can also set the LUT to update automatically by clicking on the Auto-fit LUT  icon Image Modified icon. When toggled on, the brightness of the displayed image will be is determined by the dynamic range (minimum pixel intensity to maximum pixel intensity) at of the current frame.

Show expanded LUT

You can open the advanced controls by clicking click on the Expand  Expand icon Image Modified icon on  on the far left side of each a table row to show the additional settings that are available for the selected channel. When expanded, you will see one of the two following options expanded LUT or ISO level, depending on the selected rendering mode selected:.

Expanded LUT

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You will see the expanded LUT if you have either the Maximum projection Projection or Composite volume Volume rendering mode selected. An intensity histogram is shown indicating the frequency of a given each intensity occurringlevel.

The expanded LUT mode gives you more finer control to specify over the minimum and maximum dynamic range value as well as the option to apply a pseudo-color palette to the displayed channelvalues. You can double-click on the dotted line to add another LUT Adjustment Point, which can be clicked and dragged for tuning of the LUT.

ISO level

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The ISO level display is shown when you have the Preview surface Surface rendering mode selected. The ISO Level slider sliders and textbox lets textboxes let you specify the minimum and maximum intensity levels respectively for mesh generation. This is the main control for adjusting the display when Preview surface is activein Preview Surface mode.