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Re: opening of 64-bit TIFF files

Posted by Michael Schmid on Dec 19, 2008; 3:50pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/opening-of-64-bit-TIFF-files-tp3694176p3694181.html

Hi Johannes,

ImageJ supports reading 64-bit images as raw data (and converts these  
to 32 bit).

If it is a one-time problem and you know the image size, you could  
try to open it as raw data. You have to play with the offset. A  
starting point might be Image size (in bytes) minus width*height*8;  
then you have to vary the value until the image appears centered.

This won't work for all tiff images, only if the image data is one  
big chunk.

Michael
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On 19 Dec 2008, at 16:34, Albert Cardona wrote:

> Johannes-P. Koch wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I saved quite a big file (~3GB) in a 64-bit TIFF file format. My  
>> ImageJ gives an error response. Does anybody have written an input  
>> plugin making this format available for opening in ImageJ? Or does  
>> such a plugin exist at all?
>>
>
>
> ImageJ supports short (16-bit) and float (32-bit), but not 64-bit  
> images that I know of.
> You could create a LongProcessor or a DoubleProcessor to implement  
> 64-bit support, but they would not interact fully inside ImageJ --  
> would need lots of tweaks all over.
>
> Alternatively, you can create your own importer and represent them  
> in 32-bit, doing some scaling.
>
> Albert
>
> --
> Albert Cardona
> http://albert.rierol.net