Photon lists within TIFF files

Posted by Terry L. Sprout on Jul 27, 2011; 3:13pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Photon-lists-within-TIFF-files-tp3683724.html

Hello,

 

I write scientific imaging software, which writes TIFF files to archive
images. I recently added the ability to locate single photons in an
image to sub-pixel accuracy. The software then uses the list of photons
to create a new image that can be integrated for long exposures. When
archiving these images, we only want to archive the list of photons and
not the 2D image that is usually included in a TIFF file.

 

I came up with a scheme that uses an IFD tag that I registered with
Adobe. I want other TIFF readers to be able to use these files as well.

 

I know others must have done this before and it might be best if I
conform to existing schemes to make my files readable by other TIFF
readers. Does anyone know of a scheme that is already being used? Is
there an ImageJ plug-in for reading such files?

 

I don't know much about what can be done with ImageJ. Can a developer
extend the file formats used by ImageJ? In other words, can I write a
plug-in to read these files of should someone from NIH extend the TIFF
reader to read these files?

 

 

Terry L. Sprout

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