Re: analyzing spine dynamics in ImageJ

Posted by Reena Prity Murmu on Oct 27, 2010; 8:26am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/analyzing-spine-dynamics-in-ImageJ-tp3686565p3686567.html

Dear Fred,
  The data that I want to analyze are Z-stacks of dendritic segments  
taken at different time points. Will try what u suggested in ImageJ.  
Thank u very much for ur suggestion.

Best wishes
Reena

On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:23 AM, suendermann wrote:

> Dear Reena,
>
> in principal you don't need any plugin to analyse spine length. I  
> don't
> know which kind of data you have, so I assume you have a 2D timeseries
> of spine images. For a manual analysis you just have to define a point
> on the base of the spine neck as a starting point and the furthest  
> point
> on the spine head. Then connect both via line-tool and press crtl-m  
> for
> measurement.
> I'm not aware of any automatical analysis tool.
>
> Greetings
>   Fred
>
> On 26.10.2010 17:05, Reena Prity Murmu wrote:
>> I am interested in analyzing spine dynamics/turnover. At present we  
>> do
>> not have any software to  do that. I have heard that it is possible  
>> to
>> analyze spine dynamics in ImageJ  by measuring spine length over  
>> time.
>> Since, I have never done this kind of analyses