RT journal article
T1 rho-MtreeRing: A Graphical User Interface for X-ray Microdensity Analysis
A1 García-Hidalgo, Miguel
A1 García-Pedrero, Ángel M.
A1 Caetano Sánchez, Cristina
A1 Gómez-España, Marcos
A1 Lillo-Saavedra, Mario
A1 Olano, José Miguel
A2 Biología
K1 dendrochronology
K1 densitometry
K1 shiny graphical user interface (GUI)
K1 tree ring
K1 wood density
AB Wood microdensitometry provides an integrated measurement of inter and intra-annual changes in wood anatomy and lignification. Although it can be acquired through a wide array of techniques, X-ray-based techniques are still the standard. Conversion of a grayscale X-ray image to density and annual ring boundaries delimitation is performed through image analysis software. Proprietary software has dominated these applications, albeit Free Open Source Software (FOSS) has been developed recently. We present rho-MtreeRing, a user-friendly FOSS that streamlines the entire microdensitometry analysis process through a graphical user interface based on Shiny R Software without any programming knowledge. We compared the results of this program with the most widely used commercial software (WinDendro), showing the validity of the results. rho-MtreeRing can be personalized and developed by the microdensitometry research community.
PB MDPI
SN 1999-4907
YR 2021
FD 2021-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26062
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26062
LA eng
NO This project was funded by Junta de Castilla y Leon, project OUTBREAK (VA171P20), the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, grant number CGL2017-87309-P (MGH PRE2018-084106) and project PROWARM (PID2020-118444GA-I00). A. Garcia-Pedrero acknowledges the support of the UPM through Project RP200060107. M. Lillo-Saavedra thanks the support of CRHIAM (ANID/FONDAP/15130015).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026