I would use ImageJ, not Photoshop.
The best quantification method is integration. Let's say that you draw a
rectangle around each band, then calculate the pixel intensity of each
column of pixels and make a histogram of these values, with pixel
location on the x-axis and intensity value on the y-axis. The amount of
signal in the band is represented by the area under the curve -- the
integral. Photoshop can't calculate this, but I think there might be a
plug-in for ImageJ that can.
So what you would do is this: draw a rectangle around each band.
Calculate the integrated intensity for each band. Possibly also
calculate the integrated intensity for a background region and subtract
it from the value of each band.
If you can't find a way to quantify the integrated intensity of the
bands, then you could calculate the average or mean intensity. This will
only work if the rectangles around your bands are identical, otherwise
you are dividing the sum of pixel intensities for each band by a
different denominator (number of pixels).
One thing to note: in all drawing programs, including Photoshop and
ImageJ, white has a value of 255 and black has a value of 0. Therefore,
you must quantify the negative of your image, where the background is
black and the bands are white. Otherwise each pixel of background would
add lots of signal (close to 255), while each pixel of band would only
contribute a small amount (close to 0) to the total.
Hope this helps,
Irit
On 2/17/2011 5:47 PM, Joshua Silverstein wrote:
I am also interested in knowing this so could you also send any replies to
me as well? Thank you so much
Josh Silverstein
On Feb 17, 2011 8:34 PM, "Pragnya Das"<[email protected]> wrote:
I want to quantitate the bands from a Western Blot (X-ray film) and a PCR
gel (Thermal paper). How can I do that. I have heard people using Photoshop
to qunatitate. Is it scientifically accepted. If so, how do I proceed after
scanning the films? I know a lot of labs use ImageJ software.
Your suggestions will be greatly appreciated
PD
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