Cursor analysis in the RICS page

RICS page

Cursor Analysis menu entry

Purpose: to perform the RICS analysis of a small region of an image as the cursor is dragged on the image. A one component diffusion analysis is also performed.

Use

Load an image stack to be analyzed. Select a ROI analysis size of 64 (any other size will work, but we suggest using a small size).

On the main RICS page menu select “cursor analysis”. The following menu should appear


You must select a type of analysis and then toggle the cursor analysis. The cursor analysis is active when the Select analysis is checked.

As you drag the cursor on the screen (image 1), in image 3 you will see the RICS function corresponding to the cursor position. In the caption of image 3 the result of the diffusion (one component) analysis is shown.

You must initialize the fit to be in a reasonable range. To initialize the fit, just press fit in the RICS page menu. Fill up the variables as needed. One example is shown below. These values will be used as a starting point for the cursor analysis.


The cursor analysis is intended to be a fast way to explore an image. If you want to systematically analyze the image and store the results of the RICS analysis in a file, then use the “Scan analysis” menu.