Re: Display on a 12bit monochrome monitor

Posted by Gluender-3 on Jan 22, 2010; 10:47am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Display-on-a-12bit-monochrome-monitor-tp3689586p3689594.html

Marcel,

I profoundly doubt that you will find a monitor that is able to
display 12 bit gray levels (of course you may find monitors that are
said to display 12 bit). 10 bit is already very difficult to achieve.

>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.
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