The Use of Macros in Atomic Force Microscopy Image Analysis and Image Processing

The public domain image analysis program NIH Image (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image) has been modified and extended to produce Image SXM (http://reg.ssci.liv.ac.uk), a program that supports many of the image file formats used by various scanning probe microscope manufacturers. This article discusses the different approaches to software customization and describes the use of two sets of macros in the analysis and processing of atomic force microscopy images.