Recently I’ve been working on projects involving heavy usage of particle tracking. There are many available solutions to do that, but since I’m a big fan of ImageJ/FIJI, I’m sticking to it. Among multiple plugins for tracking there are two best options (in my opinion): TrackMate for the automatic tracking and MTrackJ for the manual and track editing/visualization.
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Kymograph is a useful tool to transform a movie containing particles movement into a single picture/figure. It is convenient when analyzing vesicles movement in cells, axons/dendrites of neurons, cars movement on roads. It shows particles’ speed, direction, intensity, etc. What it does is just plotting how intensity is changing over time along some line or curve. (continue reading…)
A lot of different things happened since my last post.
After some time I’ve redesigned my website (finally) and also recovered my blog, where I mostly plan to share different notes/images/movies, i.e. interesting leftovers from scientific research.
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