Bio-Rad Image Lab™ Software - Manual (Page 134)

6 | Analyzing Images
134 | ChemiDoc MP Imaging System with Image Lab Software
Detecting Lanes
To detect the lanes in the image, do one of the following:
 Click Automatic if the gel image is fairly typical.
 Click Manual to detect a specific number of lanes or if automatic lane
detection did not find all the lanes.
Detecting Lanes in Multichannel Images
To use automatic lane detection with multichannel images, select one of the
channels and click Automatic. Automatic lane detection works differently in
multichannel images depending on whether the channels are linked or unlinked.
 For linked multichannel images, the lane detection is based on the selected
channel, and the lanes are detected in all channels.
 For unlinked multichannel images, lane detection is applied to only the
selected channel. You must individually select each channel and apply
automatic lane detection.
The lanes in unlinked multichannel images might fall in slightly different places on
each channel, and you might need to have more control over where the lanes fall.
You can detect the lanes in one channel of an unlinked multichannel image using
either the automatic or manual lane detection tools. Then you can copy those lanes
into the other channels and position them so that the lanes in each channel align
with one another. For more information on copying lanes, see Copying Lanes on
page 138 .
Using the All Lanes and Single Lane Tools
To use the All Lanes and Single Lane tools
 Click the lane tool first, then click the lane to which you want to apply the
change. Tool actions in linked multichannel images are applied across all
channels. Tool actions in unlinked multichannel images are applied in only the
selected channel.