Re: Setting scale of z step

Posted by NeLaS on Jan 19, 2008; 9:24pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Setting-scale-of-z-step-tp3697520p3697521.html

Hi,

You should be able to set the Voxel Depth thru Images->Properties (or
ctrl+shift+p). There you can manually set the pixel xyz to the correct
proportion.

I think that's it!

bruno

On Jan 19, 2008 7:07 PM, Declan James <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear ImageJ users
>
> Could you lend me some help?  I would like to set the z scale so that it
> matches the z step size of the Nikon confocal stack.  Each pixel has an
> xyz of 0.4 X 0.4 X 0.1 um.  At the moment after I set the scale within
> Imagej I get pixels with xyz of 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4 um(cubes).  The stack is
> imported into ImageJ using the very useful Ics opener.  When I use the
> ImageJ 3D viewer to create a projection I get an artifically elongated
> image in the z axis.
>
> Thanks
>
> Declan
>

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