Re: Display on a 12bit monochrome monitor

Posted by Michael Schmid on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Display-on-a-12bit-monochrome-monitor-tp3689586p3689595.html

Hi Marcel,

with ImageJ, display grayscale resolution is 8 bits. The concept of  
Java seems to be open for a larger number of colors, but I am not  
aware of any implementation that would go beyond 8 bits.

Of course, by adjusting Image>Adjust>Brightness&Contrast, you can see  
finer grayscale shades of a 16-bit or float image, but that will make  
other areas saturated white or black.

Michael
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On 22 Jan 2010, at 09:56, Marcel H. wrote:

> 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.