Sorry, but I have as much knowledge of Neurolucida and Mdplot as my stapler 
does.


On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Andrei de Oliveira wrote:

> Hi Donna,
> 
> 
> 
> This is exactly what I thought it was happening. Answering your question, I 
> don´t know if I can export  the cells separately as 3D coords. Or at least I 
> don´t know how to do it. What is interesting is that this problem happens 
> only when I export the sections as a unique serial section file. When I 
> export those sections to CARET separately, both contour and cells are 
> exported. Therefore, it seems that the problem is in the way I´m saving the 
> serial section file (XML format) in Neurolucida.
> 
> 
> 
> Do you know how it´s done in Mdplot?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/11/30 Donna Dierker <[email protected]>
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> Because I have no Neurolucida experience, I feel pretty helpless to help you. 
>  But my hunch is that Caret would need two different files to open/import -- 
> the contours and the cells.  (And cellcolor, too, but I'd think you'd at 
> least see black dots of the cells were there.)
> 
> First things first:  Make sure a .cell or .foci file exists after you export 
> the Neurolucida files to Caret or import them.  I assume you mean this 
> tutorial:
> 
> http://brainvis.wustl.edu/wiki_linked_files/documentation/caret5.5_contours_tutorial.pdf
> 
> I haven't done this myself, but it appears that just the contours are coming 
> in and the cells are being added later.
> 
> Is it possible the cells can be exported separately as 3D coords from 
> Neurolucida?
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> On Nov 30, 2011, at 7:31 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Dear CARET experts,
> >
> > My name is Andrei Mayer and I´m currently trying to do a 3D
> > reconstruction of Cebus monkey brain in which we injected
> > neurotracers. The plotting of labeled neurons was made in Neurolucida
> > and to do the 3D reconstruction I´m going to use the mid-thickness
> > contour of the cortex. I´m having troubles to export the XML
> > Neurolucida files to CARET. The problem is that after doing it the
> > plotted cells disappeared (in CARET). I can see and edit the contours,
> > but for some reason the cells aren´t there.
> >
> > That´s how I´m proceeding:
> > In Neurolúcida I´m opening all contour files as a unique serial
> > sections file. That way I can organize the sections, putting them in
> > order and setting the distance between them. At this point I still can
> > see both contours and cells. I then save this file in the XML format
> > like it is described in the tutorial. The problem is when I Upload
> > this XML file into CARET. It seems that only the contours were
> > uploaded. I can´t see the cells. Therefore I can´t project them to the
> > surface.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Andrei
> >
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> Laboratório de Neurobiologia II
> Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
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> Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
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