Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility (MHMF.ORG)

How To's

Acquisition:

• Background Correction of unevenness of illumination for transmitted light images

Viewing:

• Zeiss 510 confocal image databases
• Leica SP2 confocal image databases
• ImageJ
• Volocity on the \\Zernike workstation

Processing:

• General Image overlaying
• Convert B/W image to color using Photoshop
• Overlaying red/green images using Photoshop
• Photoshop class:  There is a very good series of 1 hour classes on Photoshop basics available for free through UNC-SOM Educational Technology Group. The series generally runs every month.  Wendy highly recommends the first three classes for working with microscopy images, especially for novice Photoshop users. 

Analysis:

• Cell / particle counting with C-Imaging

Movies:

• Making movies from Leica SP2 tiff image series (z-sections or time lapse)
• Digitizing VHS tapes on the computer called \\Young

Technical Tasks:

• Adding Scale bars: Keeping records  |  Leica confocal images  |  Zeiss confocal images  |  Spinning disk confocal    widefield scopes  |  C-Imaging  |  Metamorph  |  Image-J  |  Photoshop  |  tricks  |  traps
• Excel - Making a frequency Distribution Histogram

• http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/digital-blending.shtml

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