Analyze Particles- saving zero results values

Posted by Citron, Bruce on Jun 03, 2011; 3:40pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/doFit-functions-problem-tp3683803p3683805.html

I have a macro that uses Analyze Particles and automatically increments
through a collection of pairs of tifs of dual stained cells, e.g., Hoechst
plus Annexin stained.
It works fine unless there are zeros counts in a particular tif.  That data,
the 0 cell count, does not appear in the Summary window.
That makes it difficult for copy pasting into the data analysis excel
spreadsheet.

An example of part of a Summary table is:
Slice                    Count      Total Area   Average Size  Area Fraction
Mean
HT22 MI H Well 2-2.tif    62    0.189    0.003    0.3    63.808    0.914
0.854
HT22 MI A Well 2-2.tif    9    0.035    0.004    0.1    87.602    0.948
0.887
HT22 MI H Well 2-3.tif    55    0.217    0.004    0.4    64.776    0.888
0.858
HT22 MI H Well 2-4.tif    95    0.466    0.005    0.8    73.232    0.914
0.881
HT22 MI A Well 2-4.tif    11    0.064    0.006    0.1    96.743    0.949
0.890
Where Well 2, field 3 did not have any Annexin positive cells and results in
a missing row from the data.

What would be a recommended way to obtain all of the rows of data, even if
there are zero cells (particles) present?
(And I am not wedded to the Summary table, I wouldn¹t mind writing data to a
file from the macro, if needed.)
Thank you,
Bruce
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Bruce A. Citron, Ph.D., Bay Pines VA