Company literature describes Volocity as "the first true color 4D rendering system designed for biomedical imaging." Andrew Waterfall, Volocity president, expands on that definition, explaining that the program enables the visualization, publication, and measurement of time-resolved, multi-channel 3D volumes from confocal or optical microscopes. For example, scientists have used Volocity to study the mechanism of how cells divide. "It's a three-dimensional structure that's changing over time, and by acquiring the 3D volume at different time points we can see both the structure of a biological organism, but also the purpose of that structure—how it changes over time," says Waterfall.
This sounds a lot like a movie, only it's not, because the data are interactive. "The unique point about this product," says Waterfall, "is that, until now, you could make a movie of how [a sample] changes, but what we do is not actually generate a movie—this is the real data ...
