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Re: LiCor file structure

Joel Sheffield
Greetings:

>
> We have been looking at the LiCor gel imaging system, which generates a
> file image that is formally a tif file, but seems to have some special
> character.  The LiCor folks claim that the file is 22bits, although Windows
> seems to see it as 16bits.  ImageJ refuses to open the file, stating that
> it can not open "tiled tiffs".  On the other hand, IrfanView, and GIMP open
> the file as a series of five images of progressively smaller sizes  (i.e.
> pixel numbers), but converts each to 8 bits.  LiCor has a viewer that can,
> of course, read the file with no problems.
>
> Is there a plugin available for ImageJ that can parse this file and keep
> the bit depth?  The file itself is too large to send to the list.
>
>
> Joel B. Sheffield, Ph.D
> Department of Biology
> Temple University
> Philadelphia, PA 19122
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Re: LiCor file structure

Martin Höhne
Dear Joel,

try opening the LiCor tiff with a current version of Fiji (ImageJ2) and use SCIFIO to open the file. That seems to work fine.

Martin