Dr David Grainger is the head of the Inflammation Research and Therapy Laboratory, University of Cambridge. The group primarily researches into the role of inflammation in cardiovascular disease, with particular focus on cytokines and signalling molecules. Dr Grainger uses an Openlab cell imaging system to measure and quantify various cell types and tissues, such as the mouse liver macrophage cells shown here.

In the left image, the Density Slicing module has been used to create a binary mask to select all the DAPI stained cell nuclei. Using Advanced Measurements, morphological measurements have been made using the binary mask, including area, perimeter, width, height and intensity measurements. The measurements table is saved with the image document and the data can be exported for statistical analysis.