Re: Matlab and Preserving Image Geometry to measure Distances

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Oct 07, 2009; 4:37pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Matlab-and-Preserving-Image-Geometry-to-measure-Distances-tp3690891p3690892.html

 > I would like to write image files under Matlab, possibly
 > individual images and stacks.  I work with medical images
 > and its important to me that I be able to preserve
 > information about lengths and areas in the file headers,
 > and that imageJ be able to automatically read in this
 > information in order to make measurements on the image.
 > Would anyone be able to tell me what file formats I could
 > use to accomplish this, with a minimum of programming
 > involved?  I know ImageJ reads in image dimensions well
 > from DICOM files, but I'm not working with images that have
 > applicable DICOM headers written for them.

ImageJ reads the dimensions (inches or centemeters) specified by the
X_RESOLUTION, Y_RESOLUTION and RESOLUTION_UNIT tags in the headers of
TIFF files.

-wayne