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ScanImage® has been previously developed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Northwestern University , and Janelia Research Campus, with NIH grant support to Gordon Shepherd and Karel Svoboda.

Under Vidrio Technologies, ScanImage was developed as both an open-source research resource and as premium software available for sale. In 2019, the NIH grant funding ScanImage support expired and had not been renewed, so the last free version of ScanImage (5.7R1) was published and a new basic version was added to cover cost of support. As of 2021, ScanImage® is developed and supported by MBF Bioscience, LLC .

ScanImage® is used by over 200 laboratories throughout the world and has been essential to the work described in over 900 publications to date.

Citing ScanImage: Be counted!

If your lab actively uses ScanImage, please let us know about any publications using these tools (if not yet on our list)

In addition, it is required that those who publish work using ScanImage® cite Pologruto et al.

Version Licensing

ScanImage is available in three versions:

	ScanImage Free	ScanImage Basic	ScanImage Premium
License	Free*	Required	Required
Supported		✓	✓
Advanced features			✓

For an overview of the differences between ScanImage versions, see Compare ScanImage Versions. To see specific details and changes, see ScanImage® Changes.

*ScanImage® Free was funded by a NIH R24 grant from 2014 to 2018. You can download ScanImage® Free below. However, until further funding is secured, Vidrio is no longer able to develop, maintain and support ScanImage® Free. ScanImage® Free is provided ‘as-is’ under the Apache 2.0 license.