Multispectral tracing in densely labeled mouse brain with nTracer

Douglas H. Roossien, Benjamin V. Sadis, Yan Yan, John M. Webb, Lia Y. Min, Aslan S. Dizaji, Luke J. Bogart, Cristina Mazuski, Robert S. Huth, Johanna S. Stecher, Sriakhila Akula, Fred Shen, Ye Li, Tingxin Xiao, Madeleine Vandenbrink, Jeff W. Lichtman, Takao K. Hensch, Erik D. Herzog, Dawen Cai

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Abstract

This note describes nTracer, an ImageJ plug-in for user-guided, semi-automated tracing of multispectral fluorescent tissue samples. This approach allows for rapid and accurate reconstruction of whole cell morphology of large neuronal populations in densely labeled brains. Availability and implementation: nTracer was written as a plug-in for the open source image processing software ImageJ. The software, instructional documentation, tutorial videos, sample image and sample tracing results are available at https://www.cai-lab.org/ntracer-tutorial.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3544-3546
Number of pages3
JournalBioinformatics
Volume35
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 15 2019

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