[vtkusers] MRI Tiff stacks

[Julian Humphries]

Maneesh Yadav wrote:
> 
> Hi Lisa,
> I'm not sure if you can be of much help, but the 'tiff stack' is
> a single file (?).  The data is from mouseatlas.caltech.edu, (you can
> click an embryo and get the tiff stack from the bottom of the page, here
> is an example:
> 
> http://mouseatlas.caltech.edu/Stacks_and_movies/13.5dpc-Stacks_and_movies/13.5dpc_NIH_stacks/Stack,Cor1750_50,256*256_NoZF
> 
> I've never heard of these stacks before, but apparently NIH Image can view
> them...if anyone can suggest as to how to get this data into VTK that'd be
> great...(it don't think it is quite as simple as a concatenated set of
> TIFF's but it shouldn't be much more complicated than that)...
> 

Go to http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ and download or run imagej.  You can
open the stack and export it out as separate tiff files.  (Convert stack to
images).  You can also do any image processing you might need to do ahead of
time before vtk.

Julian Humphries