Referencing and Acknowledgements

Referencing xySpark

We hope that xySpark will be useful to groups studying local Ca²⁺ regulation in muscle cells. If you wish to reference xySpark, please refer to the associated paper in Biophysical Journal which includes a detailed description of the xySpark algorithm.

Full paper: Automated Detection and Analysis of Ca²⁺ Sparks in x-y Image Stacks Using a Thresholding Algorithm Implemented within the Open-Source Image Analysis Platform ImageJ Biophysical Journal, 106, 566-576, 2014.

Acknowledgements

xySpark was developed by Derek S. Steele and Elliot M. Steele, University of Leeds.   Funding from the British Heart Foundation and the Wellcome Trust is acknowledged.

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