Description:
Quantify Dwell Times measure how long tracked surfaces
dwell in interactions with target surfaces. Quantify Dwell
Times identifies and quantifies interactions that a surface
makes with other surface objects. Surface objects are marked as
interacting based on whether the vertices of the surfaces
come within a specified distance of the vertices in another
target Surfaces object. The duration (in frames/time indexes) of
all interactions formed by the tracked objects in the
Imaris Surfaces object are recorded track-by-track and reported
in an Excel spreadsheet.
Installation:
To make this function available to Imaris, copy this file into
the XTensions folder in the Imaris installation folder, e.g.,
C:\ProgramFiles\Bitplane\Imaris x64 8.1.2\XTensions.
After copying this file to the XTensions folder and restarting Imaris,
you can find this function in the 'Surfaces Function' menu,
as well as in the 'Image Processing' menu under the
Surfaces Functions group.
Execution:
1)Select the 'Tools' Icon in Imaris.
2)From the list of extentions choose 'Quantify Dwell Times.'
3)Choose surface 1 then choose surface 2
Output:
An xls spreadsheet that details the persistent interactions of the
surface objects of interest.