Dear Dr. Staudacher,
 
there is a powerful software package on the market from KONTRON in Munich:
KS 400. This software offers a 3D package to measure vulomes etc. and all
the demands you listed below. Please contact your local Carl Zeiss
representative in Germany. He will make all the connections you need.
 
regards,
 
Dr. Herbert Schaden
 
>Hi,
>in our lab we are interested in reconstructing neurons from confocal images
>and get quantitative data on their volumes, neurite length, angles between
>neurites,.... For these purposes we are currently looking for software (Mac
>or SGI).
>1.) Reconstruction: therefore we not only want a nice picture of a single
>stack of optical sections, but we would have to combine different stacks
>like a mosaic or puzzle to get the whole reconstruction. The stacks used
>for this stem as well from the same histological section as from adjacent
>ones.
>2.) The measurements we would like to make (volumes, neurite length, angles
>between neurites,...) should not be done on a 2D-projection of the data,
>but in the 3D-data.
>If anyone knows one or more programs that can be used for our purposes, I
>would be glad to get the information.
>Thanks a lot,
>Erich
>
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>Dr. Erich Staudacher
>Universitaet Leipzig
>Fakultaet fuer Biowissenschaften, Pharmazie und Psychologie
>Institut fuer Zoologie
>Talstr. 33
>D-04103 Leipzig
>phone: FRG + 0341/97 36-872
>fax: FRG + 0341/9 60 30 99
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Carl Zeiss AG
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