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Helical Picking Procedure

Overview

The helical particle procedure

Installation

Get your data into ImageJ

Load the raw data

  1. File → Import → Image Sequence
  2. Select the folder of your images
  3. Type the file ending into “File name contains:” (e.g .mrc, .tif)
  4. Check “Use virtual stack”
  5. Press OK Now you have read in your data as an image stack.

Reduce the size

For the sake of memory consumption and speed your should reduce the size / image depth of your image data.

  1. Image → Adjust → Size
  2. Set the width to 1024. The height is calculated automatically.
  3. Press OK.
  4. Image → Type → 8 Bit Wait until the processing is finished.

Save the file for later use

File → Save As → Tiff…

Parameters

Detection

Filament width

Mask width (Advanced option)

Lower threshold

Upper threshold

Filtering

General

Step-by-Step Tutorial

automated_helical_picking.txt · Last modified: 2018/06/20 13:12 (external edit)