Re: Preserving Image Geometry From File Headers

Posted by gabibau on Oct 01, 2009; 10:52am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Preserving-Image-Geometry-From-File-Headers-tp3690962p3690963.html

Hi,

TIFF preserves scale when the sanner puts it there, so I guess you coud
write it there too.


Gabriela Bauermann
Santa Maria /RS /Brasil
Processamento e Análise de Imagens
www.imagesurvey.com.br


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Nick Rubert <[hidden email]> wrote:

> All you Java Experts,
>
> I'd like to open images in imageJ and have it automatically read in image
> dimensions in units such as mm or cm for performing area and length
> measurements using the ROI tools.  This feature seems to work well for
> DICOM
> formats.  However it hasn't worked for me when I've tried adjusting the
> header to png files.  Is there an image file format, preferably simpler
> than
> DICOM files, that this works well for?  Additionally, what I'd like to do
> is
> write an image file from a numpy array in python, then open the image in
> imageJ and see information about the physical size of the thing the image
> represents be read from the header.  If anyone has done this or something
> similar advice would be greatly appreciated.  Also, I don't know where to
> begin with Java programming.  Though, I am comfortable working with C/C++
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>