unrolling a z-stack

Posted by Elizabeth Crowell on Oct 15, 2009; 3:25pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/unrolling-a-z-stack-tp3690733.html

Dear ImageJ experts,

I am taking images of fibers that occur on the periphery of cells, and acquiring
z-stacks of the entire cell.  The cells are roughly cylindrical.
For visualization purposes, it would be useful to virtually slice open these
cells and unroll them so that I can see the fibers on every face of the
cylinder in the same plane.
Is there a means of doing this?  Has anyone encountered this issue before?

Segmentation of the cells should not be a problem, since I can simply delete the
signal outside of the cells in each slice.  (This does not need to be a
high-through-put procedure.)

Thank you in advance for your ideas...

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Crowell
Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire
INRA / Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin
Route de Saint-Cyr
78026 Versailles cedex
FRANCE

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