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Re: Quantification problem: more values despite weaker band?

Posted by Joel Sheffield on Apr 25, 2014; 2:59pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Quantification-problem-more-values-despite-weaker-band-tp5007430p5007437.html

Hi Verena,

You may have the lut reversed.  If you move the cursor over the bands in
the image, do you get a high or a low value for the "darker" band?  It
seems that you are using the Analyze particles routine for the analysis.
You might want to try the Gel Analyzer.

Joel



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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Rena2014 <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I´m having problems quantifying some of my blots. The problem is as
> follows:
> I have 2 lanes on my blot - one lane showing a thick  protein band, the
> second one showing a much much fainter band. Surprisingly, I always get a
> higher RawIntDen for the clearly weaker band... I really have no idea what
> the problem might be.
> After development, I save my pictures as .tif (16 bit) and change it to
> 8bit
> in ImageJ. Furthermore I convert the image so that black bands appear white
> and the background is black.
> Could it be problem that I save the pics as 16bit at the beginning?
> I would be very grateful for some helping hints! Thanks!
>
> Verena
>
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