dentrites lenght region type

MaurizioIEC

Hi Guys,
which is the meaning of these measurements?
I searched on the manual without results.
How can I use them to measure dendritic arms (Neurons) ?
a practical example about its use is welcome
thank you
Ciao
Maurizio

YuriG

Hi Maurizio,

If you want to measure length of neuron arms, you can activate "Vectorize" counting option, which will turn any object to disconnected skeleton branches, and measure Line:Length.

Yuri

MaurizioIEC

Thanks Yuri,
this work fine.
but I am not able to use these two parameters:
Dentrites, Number of
Dentritic lenght
can you explain me their meaning?
Ciao
Maurizio

YuriG

Hi Maurizio,

Dendrites are measured as 1-pixel thick open branches, as described in the measurement tooltip. So, you may do some pre-processing (e.g. limited thinning) before measuring dendrites. Here is the example of such measurement.



I've also attached the test image. 

The "Vectorize", on other hand, doesn't require pre-thinning (thinning is applied internally by the measurement).

Yuri