Re: Determining cell area

Posted by Jieqi Wang on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Determining-cell-area-tp3701951p3701952.html

Hi,
You can try the "Yawi 2D" plugin http://yawi3d.sourceforge.net/), which
provides a enhanced version of magic wand for ImageJ. Read "INSTALL.txt"
for instruction and "CHANGELOG.txt" for feature list.

Jieqi

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
http://jieqiwang.googlepages.com

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Sarwar, Rizwan wrote:

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> We are growing primary cultures of rat ventricular myocytes. After the
> experiment, we want to determine the area of the myocytes, and I am
> currently doing this by drawing around each cell with my mouse on
> ImageJ, and measuring the area (Ctrl+M). Is there a more efficient way
> to do this do this that will:
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> (1)      allow me to select each cell individually (because this is a
> primary culture, there are other cell types, and I am excluding all
> "spindly" shaped cells)
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> (2)      give me the area for each individual cell to calculate means,
> etc.
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> Thanks
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> Rizwan
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