On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote: > 12 bits becomes short. There is no native 12 bit data storage. Technically there is. In ACR-NEMA (previous version of DICOM) you can define Bits Allocated=12 (this is however deprecated AFAIK). -- Mathieu