has anyone ever used ImageJ to read micro-CT scan data ?

Posted by Maura Monville on Mar 02, 2014; 12:55am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/has-anyone-ever-used-ImageJ-to-read-micro-CT-scan-data-tp5006730.html

          Dear ImageJ experts,

We have just received a big file whose extension is ".isq" from a collaborator who does experiments on animals.
The file contains an unspecified number of micro-CT data acquired through a CT scanner,  used with small animals,
called Scanco Medical AG microCT40 or Scanco VivaCT40, Bruttisellen, Switzerland. The source spot size was 5 micro-meter  
at 45 KVp (with 0.5 mm Al filtering) sampling with 15x15x15 micro-meter voxels in a 30 mm diameter field
3 mm stacks of 200 sections at 2000 projections per revolution and an integration time of 300 milli-second per projection.

".isq" is a Scanco proprietary format.
We are looking for a s/w package capable of loading the micro-CT data and convert them into standard DICOM format.
We contacted Scanco technical support and were told the following "plugins for ImageJ may be found on the net",
which suggests that ImageJ, coupled with some appropriate plugin, can do the job.
No one in our group has ever used ImageJ. Therefore, I would greatly appreciate any comment and/or suggestion
helping us read the micro-CT data.
Thank you in advance.
       Kind regards,
              Maura Monville
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