Re: read part of a huge image stack--.tiff

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Jun 29, 2012; 12:50pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/read-part-of-a-huge-image-stack-tiff-tp4999249p4999251.html

On Jun 29, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Guanghua Du wrote:

> Dear ImageJ-colleagues
> I have some image data(.tiff format) that are larger than 1.5 Gbyte, these image stacks cannot be read in ImageJ-32 bit, as there is no so much memory in the java virtual machine.
> does anybody know some plugin which support to read only part of an image stack? so that I can read the huge file part by part for analysis?

Open the TIFF file as a virtual stack using File>Import>TIFF Virtual Stack and then use the Image>Duplicate command to convert parts of the virtual stack to in-memory stacks.

-wayne

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