Data Cube Tool
A data cube is stack of images (as NIH Image does) or an image of vectors (a spectral image- each pixel is a vector of data).
Read data cubes with the File / Open menu (see list of file types that Lispix reads), or as individual images with the Data Cube / read / ... menu (see image load order).
Right-click on the cube to find sliders or plots associated with the cube. Right click on a spectrum plot to find the cube from which it was made.
Lispix opens large data cubes, such as spectrum images as a file-based cube window to conserve computer memory. When opening such a cube for the first time, Lispix needs to preprocess these cubes, which takes several minutes. Opening the cubes thereafter is very fast - faster than opening small data cubes in the old way (as a memory based cube). If the spectrum images are small enough, Lispix gives you the choice of whether to open as a file cube, or as a memory based cube. I recommend using the file cube, except for doing PCA (Principal Component Analysis), which still requires a memory based cube, as of 8/09.
You may wish to preprocess large data cubes in "batch mode" using *Data Cube* / Open / Preprocess Large Data Cubes.
The single slice slider appears under a freshly opened data cube window. Right-clicking on the slider makes some convenient functions available for extracting a slice as an individual image (for thresholding or colorizing, for example), for setting the slice position exactly by typing (handy for deep data cubes where the precision of the slider is insufficient), and for moving the slider from cube to spectrum plots and back (handy for visualizing images within specific peaks on the spectrum plot).
Single slice slider: 
Right-click on slider: 
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Illustration of summed image from a region of the spectrum.
