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Re: Circular plot with ImageJ

Posted by Michael Schmid on Aug 02, 2010; 4:37pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Circular-plot-with-ImageJ-tp3687397p3687400.html

Hi everyone,

without wanting to enter a lengthy discussion - it depends on what  
you want. Interpolation may be desired in some cases (smoothly  
varying pixel values), undesirable in others. ImageJ has an option in  
the Profile Plot options for interpolation.

So, if you want interpolation, use the polar transformer, but then it  
may make sense to deselect interpolation in the Profile Plot Options  
to avoid interpolating pixel values that are already a result of  
interpolation.

If you don't want interpolation, use the plugin by Johannes or some  
equivalent macro that simply takes the pixel values at the nearest  
point.

Michael
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On 2 Aug 2010, at 14:24, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Michael Schmid wrote:
>
>> you can use the Polar Transformer and then do a normal (linear)  
>> linescan.
>>
>> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/polar-transformer.html
>
> Note that you will then analyze interpolated data, not your  
> original ones.
> Not wanting to start a flamewar, I nevertheless feel the urge to  
> point out
> that not all scientists are happy with analyses that use processed  
> data
> when they could have used the original pixel intensities instead.
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes