i am planning to do research on changes in volume of white matter and grey matter due to effect of severe malnutrition. for this i will make the section of brain with some thickness. how can i use imageJ in this process?
thank you Mahdy for suggestion , i got the answer to measure the area but still how can i measure the volume of white and grey matter?
once you have the area, assume the thickness is constant in each slide and multiply the area by the thickness of the slide.
What histological staining are you using?
The right choice could make a big difference
thank you Jim Macdonall, actually i am planning to quantify the white matter and grey matter not in histological slide but in photograph of coronal section of brain. but any way i think i can take the thickness of slice to measure the volume.
To Patric J Gannon.
can,t we measure on gross coronal section without staining ?
i think it would br tough to measure on gross coronal section without staining. Mild staining would be useful.
You have to stain your sections using silver nitrate or crystal violet as an example which will emerge your area which will be used through the threshold of the ImageJ or even photoshop
thank you Hafez
can i use HE stain to measure the area of white and grey matter ?
I did not use it before to reveal with HE as it shows only the structural shape of brain and so, may be
I think Luxol Fast blue is a good candidate to stain the white matter but HE is helpful for nucleus and cytoplasm staining
Yes. You can use it after adjustment for size and shape.
Good luck
Of course, you can. You just have to do simple calibration and then proceed.
I'm currently using ImageJ analysis software for my study. I'm using a stage micrometer for calibration purpose. You can borrow it from me...
You can download it from the official website: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html
The software varies according to your system configuration. So you need to match that first and then download.
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