Problem opening a TIFF stack > 2GB

Posted by aweitz on Jun 18, 2009; 4:12am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Problem-opening-a-TIFF-stack-2GB-tp3692079.html

I have a ~3GB 16-bit TIFF file that I'm trying to open as a stack.  I'm using Vista x64, and I have 4 GB of RAM.  My max memory for ImageJ is set to 3500 MB.  I'm using version 1.42q.

My image has 6000 slices, but only the first 4260 slices are loaded.  It turns out that these 4260 stacks constitute 2GB of image data.  (I know this because the title about the loaded image stack says "2GB".)  For some reason, all the slices after #4260 are being ignored.

I have also tried loading the image as a TIFF Virtual Stack, but I run into the same problem.

Does anyone know why this is happening?  Thanks!!!