Re: Straightening a segmented line

Posted by Kurt De Vos on Apr 25, 2006; 10:25am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Straightening-a-segmented-line-tp3702999p3703000.html

Hi Rafael,
You could use the straighten plugin
kurt de vos

On 24 Apr 2006, at 19:06, Rafael Carazo-Salas wrote:

> Dear NIH Image users ,
>
> I am analyzing 2D images which contain mostly background and some
> 'fluorescence lines' which represent the signal .  Although the  
> lines are
> mostly straight the do bend often and so to analyze them I use the  
> Segmented
> Line Selection , followed by the Plot Profile tool .  This gives me  
> the
> fluorescence per pixel for the whole segmented line selected and  
> this data
> can then be saved as a table .
>
> I would like to do something slightly more sophisticated .  I would  
> like to
> :  1) create a segmented line selection , then 2) open a new window  
> as wide
> as the total segmented line length , and then 3) 'paste' the  
> fluorescence
> intensity information from my segmented line in this new window (in a
> nutshell , I want to straighten the segmented line and create a new
> straightened line window with the fluorescence information in each  
> pixel of
> it) .
>
> If this is not too confusing would any of you have ideas about  
> this ? I have
> written a macro fo this but it seems to complicated to be the most  
> efficient
> way to accomplish this thing .
>
> Thank you very much in advance !  Cheers ,
>
>
>
>
>
> Rafael
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
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> Cell Cycle Laboratory
> Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute
> 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields
> London WC2A 3PX, UNITED KINGDOM
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