Re: Measuring Volumes from MRI images

Seth Shipman wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to use ImageJ to get hippocampal volumes from structural MRI images.  I can get them by tracing the HPC on each slice, using the measure function to get area, exporting the data to excel and calculating volume from all of the areas, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this with a more sophisticated technique.  I would appreciate any suggestions for specific plugins or tools that I might be missing.  Thanks, 

There's the grid plugin that lets you do point-counting instead of 
measuring the area but I'm not sure it provides much of an advantage one 
way or the other.  In any case, before you begin, find a copy of 
"Unbiased Stereology" by CV Howard and MG Reed, or "Unbiased Stereology" 
by PR Mouton.  They'll walk you through the sampling issues, which turn 
out to be more important than the precise method by which you measure area.

Good luck!

Martin Wessendorf
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