About MAXWELL

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13377-w

MAXWELL (Microscopy by Achromatic X-rays With Emission of Laminar Light) is a tandem use X-ray/visible light microscopy technique designed and implemented at BL29XU at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan. This repository contains several scripts, primarily in Python and Java, which are intended to be used for experimentation and analysis on output from the MAXWELL microscopy system.

Instructions for MAXWELL_MultiDimensionalRename:

Warning

I RECOMMEND DOING THIS ONLY FOR COPIED DATA AND NOT THE ORIGINAL, AS THERE IS NO UNDO.

Important

Must have Python, Anaconda powershell, or Jupyter Notebook, etc installed.

• Download MAXWELL_MultiDimensionalRename.py from Github
• Open python command line
• cd into the folder containing the downloaded file
• Type "python" to open the python environment
• Type the following then click enter:

  • from MAXWELL_MultiDimensionalRename import Rename

• Type the following then click enter: (The path should be the path to your stack. It is important to include the r outside of the quotation marks)

  • a = Rename(r"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Folder")

• Type the following then click enter: (Please change the name and numbers to reflect the data)

  • a.Execute(sample_name="YourSample", deg=0, Z_Num=10, X_Num=31)

Finished. Check the folder to ensure the name was changed correctly.

Instructions for MAXWELL_StructuredStack:

Important

Must have ImageJ or Fiji installed

• Download MAXWELL_StructuredStack.ijm from Github
• (In ImageJ) File ⟶ Import ⟶ Image Sequence ⟶ Select your data
• Plugins ⟶ Macros ⟶ Run ⟶ Select MAXWELL_StructuredStack.ijm
• Imput all information from your stack

Finished. Check the data.

MAXWELL Software developed by Sierra Dean @ RIKEN SPring-8 Center (JAPAN) 2024
Email: ccnd@live.com