Spark Analysis Detection

Source Code / Test Data

The material here is based on the algorithm described in Mark-Anthony Bray, Nicholas A. Geisse and Kevin Kit Parker, “http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/12/4433,” Biophysical Journal, 92(12): pg 4433 – 4443.

Movie (supplemental data) – Movie recorded from an isotropic monolayer of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes, loaded with the Ca2+ sensitive dye Fluo-4. The tissue exhibits several tissue-wide calcium transients, accompanied by spark activity.

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License

This toolbox is released under the GNU General Public License. This is a copyleft license, which means you have the freedom to use, distribute and modify the code, but only on the condition that you must pass on this freedom. You can integrate this code into proprietary packages, but you must do so according to this rule. That is, some parts of your proprietary package will not have this freedom, but those parts derived from this code must retain that freedom. You must use, distribute and develop the code herein in accordance with the GPL.