Re: Extracting one particular slice from 3D tiff stack

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Jan 11, 2010; 11:08pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Extracting-one-particular-slice-from-3D-tiff-stack-tp3689749p3689753.html

On Jan 10, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Andrew Yancy <[hidden email]> wrote:

> So a virtual stack is just a stack that's too big to read from disk  
> into RAM?  That might be close to what I want, if it's the case that  
> the only slices that are actually read from disk are the first one  
> and the one I specify.  It's kind of annoying because this sort of  
> thing is one of the most basic image manipulation commands in Matlab:
>
> single_layer_tiff = imread(stack_filename, slice_number)
>
> I was hoping there was a similar thing in ImageJ, preferably a  
> simple library function.  Thanks for your help and for any more  
> insight you can give, I appreciate it!

The ImageJ 1.43o daily build has a new open(path,n) macro function  
that opens the nth image in a tiff stack. In a plugin, use

    ImagePlus imp = IJ.open(path,n);

-wayne

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