Dear Sam

You can do all this and more with IDL but there is a learning curve to
overcome. The effort will be more than justified by the results
though...

IDL costs about $1500.

Regards

Mark Cannell

SGHMS

On Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:17:02 -0500 Sam Wang wrote:

> From: Sam Wang <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:17:02 -0500
> Subject: Quantitative image analysis for Image-Pro
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>         Here at Duke we are gathering confocal movies of dendritic
Ca
> signals using
> our Noran Odyssey (w/SGI Indy front end).  We are looking for a good
way to
> crunch
> these into a pretty form for showing in public and have committed to
Image-Pro,
> which has a sophisticated scripting language.  What it does not have
is a
> library of
> pre-written macros.  This would save us much development time.
>
>         Does anyone know of such a library, of use to quantitative
imagers /
> fluorescence movie-makers?
>
> Useful functions would include:
>
> * frame averaging (running, jumping, and other)
> * manipulating a whole stack of images for background subtraction,
division
>         by baseline
> * superimposing pseudocolor on a grayscale reference image
> * following regions-of-interest through a stack of images.
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Sam Wang
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Department of Neurobiology, Box 3209
> Duke University Medical Center
> Durham, NC 27710
> (919) 681-6165
> (919) 684-4431 FAX