[vtkusers] How to read a tiff file into volume

[Kim Chuan Lim]

Hi ya,

Thanks Jim and Amy, your help is useful.
Thanks a lot.

Best Regards,
Kim Chuan.


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> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 18:11:24 +0100
> From: Kim Chuan Lim <lim.kim.chuan at gmail.com>
> Subject: [vtkusers] How to read a tiff file into volume
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> Hi ya,
> 
> i use vtkTIFFReader to read a stacked tiff format file like this
> 
> vtkTIFFReader r
> r SetFileName "$VTK_DATA_ROOT/2.tif"
> r Update
> 
> scan [[r GetOutput] GetWholeExtent] "%d %d %d %d %d %d" \
>         xMin xMax yMin yMax zMin zMax
> 
> puts "xMin= $xMin , xMax = $xMax, yMin = $yMin , zMin = $zMin , zMax = $zMax"
> 
> The return values are all ZERO except xMax is equal to some value..
> 
> May i know how can i read a stacked tiff format file into volume?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Kim Chuan.
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:10:33 -0400
> From: "James Carroll" <jim at microbrightfield.com>
> Subject: RE: [vtkusers] How to read a tiff file into volume
> To: "Amy Squillacote" <amy.squillacote at kitware.com>
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
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> 
> Using the SetFilePrefix method is necessary, VTK can't read tiff volumes
> (the ITK does read tiff volumes, so some people will read the multi-tiff
> into ITK, and then convert to VTK.)
> 
> If you need to separate out the individual levels of your stack
> you can use the tiffsplit utility from libtiff.
> 
>   http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.7.2.html
> (the link might just have the source, and not binaries...)
> 
> -Jim
>