Display on a 12bit monochrome monitor

Posted by Marcel H. on Jan 22, 2010; 8:56am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Display-on-a-12bit-monochrome-monitor-tp3689586.html

Hi list members,

I have a 12bit monochrome Dicom image.
If I had a radiologic monitor and a professional graphics board that both support support 12 bit grayscale, would it be possible to display more than 8 bit with ImageJ?
Or will the image be sampled down to 8 bit also on a 12 bit screen?

If it is not possible with ImageJ, is there another way with Java to display more that 2^8 gray scales with that professional radiology hardware?

Or is that only possible with radiology workstations?

A lot of questions, thanks for your help!

Marcel H.