[3dem] Ettention 1.0 Release

[Trepout Sylvain]

Dear Tim,

Thank you so much for providing your software to the whole community !!!
We really appreciate it !!!

Best regards,
Sylvain
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Sylvain TREPOUT
Ingénieur de Recherche Inserm
Institut Curie / INSERM U1196
Campus Universitaire d'Orsay, Bat 112
91405 Orsay cedex FRANCE
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De : 3dem [3dem-bounces at ncmir.ucsd.edu] de la part de Tim [Tim.Dahmen at dfki.de]
Envoyé : jeudi 2 juillet 2015 08:30
À : 3dem at ncmir.ucsd.edu
Objet : [3dem] Ettention 1.0 Release

Dear All,
we would like to point out the release of a new software package for electron tomography, called "Ettention". The software was developed over the last couple of years at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken, Germany, in cooperation with the company EYEN SE, Prague, and Maastricht University.
Ettention is released as open source on the platforms Windows and Linux. It requires a OpenCL compatible high performance computing (HPC) backend, such as
- NVidia GPU, or
- x86 CPU with OpenCL driver installed, or
- Intel Xeon Phi

Use Cases so far:
- Ettention provides support for typical iterative reconstruction methods such as block iterative reconstructions and SIRT and comes integrated in the eTomo User Interface of IMOD. It has been used in the NOTOX (FP7-267038) project for cryo-EM reconstructions of single tilt CTEM data.
- Ettention provides a STEM plugin for the reconstruction of combined tilt- and focal series data in aberration corrected STEM with limited depth of field.
- A laminography plugin has been used in the course of the IMCL project (AOBJ: 600875) for X-Ray Laminographic reconstructions using geometric prior knowledge.
The main point of Ettention is that, due to a modular design and object oriented architecture, the system is very extensible and therefore well suited for algorithmic experiments. The software automatically takes care of memory mangement on the HPC device and therefore is suitable for high resolution reconstructions (2K and more). Ettention is shipped with numerous tutorials and examples inclusing implementations of the weighted back projection, weighted SIRT and a tutorial demonstrating the use of geometric prior knowledge.
Ettention can be downloaded from www.ettention.org<http://www.ettention.org> or https://github.com/c3di/ettention.git. Please feel free to use the software and provide us feedback via contact at ettention.org<mailto:contact at ettention.org>.
A first hands-on experience on Ettention will be given during the cryo-EM workshop in Maastricht, July 8-10.
We thank David Mastronarde and Sue Held for their help integrating ettention in the eTomo GUI.

best regards
    The Ettention Team

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Dipl.-Inform. Tim Dahmen
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