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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc. 2021 Apr;1(4):e68. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.68

Table 2.

Journal-defined MetaMorph variables.

Device.Focus.CurPos MetaMorph device variable.
Device.Magnification.Setting MetaMorph device variable.
Device.Stage.XPosition MetaMorph device variable.
Device.Stage.YPosition MetaMorph device variable.
DoesFileExist.ErrorCode MetaMorph file variable.
Image.ActivePlane MetaMorph image variable used in add top left or bottom right position to array and Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)) to record the current plane (representing an ROI) of Stage list array.tif
Image.Annotation MetaMorph image variable used in Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)) used to store the text string for the Scan Slide directory name in each plane of Stage list array.tif Also used as designed in SlideZ focus, ROI focus, and scan slide adjust to record exposure times
Image.CameraX MetaMorph image variable used in add top left or bottom right position to array, Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)), scan tissue, and ROI focus to store bottom right ROI stage positions in each plane of Stage list array.tif
Image.CameraY MetaMorph image variable used in add top left or bottom right position to array, Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)), scan tissue, and ROI focus to store ROI bottom right stage positions in each plane of Stage list array.tif.
Image.FilePath MetaMorph file variable.
Image.IllumSetting MetaMorph image variable used in Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)) and scan tissue to store the text string for the scan file name in each plane of Stage list array.tif
Image.NumPlanes MetaMorph image variable.
Image.ScaleValueHigh MetaMorph image variable.
Image.ScaleValueLow MetaMorph image variable.
Image.StageLabel MetaMorph image variable used in Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)), scan tissue, and ROI focus to store the text string of the region label (the variable Label) in each plane of Stage list array.tif
Image.StageX MetaMorph image variable used in add top left or bottom right position to array, Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)), scan tissue, and ROI focus to store top left ROI stage positions in each plane of Stage list array.tif
Image.StageY MetaMorph image variable used in add top left or bottom right position to array, Region label to array (or Region label to array (existing stage list array)), scan tissue, and ROI focus; to store top left ROI stage positions in each plane of Stage list array.tif
Journal.RunJournalLastDirectory MetaMorph file variable
Region.Label MetaMorph image/region variable
ScanSlide.BaseName MetaMorph file variable
ScanSlide.Directory MetaMorph file variable
ScanSlide.ScanUpperLeft.X; ScanSlide.ScanUpperLeft.y MetaMorph programvariables
ScanSlide.ScanLowerRight.X ScanSlide.ScanLowerRight.Y MetaMorph program variables
ScanSlide.Status.WaveNum MetaMorph program variable
Stopwatches.Stopwatch1 MetaMorph program variable
SuitePath MetaMorph file variable
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Underlines indicate standard MetaMorph variables are used for non-standard purposes.