title: NeuroVideo: a program for capturing and processing time-lapse video.
abstract: We have developed a program for the Macintosh computer to control a Panasonic Optical Memory Disk Recorder (OMDR) in order to generate time-lapse video recordings of growing neurons. The software, in addition to regulating the timing of a recording in a flexible way, can also digitize and pre-process images before writing them out to the optical disk. NeuroVideo includes a complete set of functions to enhance images, and provides both an easy-to-use graphical interface and a simple but powerful text-based scripting language.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112.
authors.forename: P Z
authors.initials: PZ
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bastiani
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008838:Microcomputers; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology; D009488:Neurosciences; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D013997:Time Factors; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014741:Video Recording