Bitplane

Bitplane is software developed of Andor Technology company for 3D and 4D image analysis. It was founded in December 1992. Bitplane works in Zürich, Belfast, and South Windsor.

Bitplane

Company type	Public
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Belfast, United Kingdom
Products	Imaris: Software for 3D and 4D Imaging
Parent	Andor Technology
Website	www.bitplane.com

Overview

Bitplane got investments in 2000. After an investment with Endeavour, Bitplane started to growing in North America. After the internet bubble in 2001, Bitplane started slowly and continuously grew in sales and profitability

Product

Imaris is Bitplane's main product. It helps in visualization, segmentation and interpretation of 3D and 4D images. Imaris visualize images in a real time in an interactive manner so everyone can see visual assessments of experiments with 3D and 4D images. Imaris has a lot of image segmentation options and tools to segment large datasets to find, divide, and visualize various objects.

In order to explore the 3D capabilities of the confocal microscope, the instrument still had to be combined with high-end graphics computers.