Stitching terabyte-sized 3D images acquired in Confocal Ultramicroscopy

A fully automated 3D Stitching tool designed for the very the large images produced by a special class of microscopes capable to acquire volumes of about 1 cm
³
at micrometric resolution is presented. Exploiting some unique characteristics of the acquired images the tool makes it possible the accurate reconstruction of images of 1 TB or more in a reasonable time, even on workstations with limited resources. Performance figures confirming the effectiveness of the proposed approach are reported.