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About MIPAV

Supported Formats

MIPAV supports read/write access in a number of different file-formats, and can read still others. There are some MIPAV-only features (for example, allowing a user to recover a particular volumes of interest), MIPAV can save and later restore important data. Not only does MIPAV support a number of medical image data formats, it also supports some general purpose formats -- very helpful when making presentations!

Image File Formats Currently Supported by MIPAV
File Format Extension Open Save
Adobe Photoshop PSD Yes Yes
AFNI BRIK, HEAD Yes Yes (1)
Analyze IMG Yes Yes
Audio/Video Interleave AVI Yes Yes (2)
BIORAD PIC Yes No
Bruker 2dseq Yes No
Cheshire IMG, IMC Yes Yes
DICOM 3.0 DCM, IMA Yes Yes
FITS FTS Yes Yes
FreeSurfer Image COR Yes No
  MGH Yes Yes
  MGZ Yes Yes
Surface ASC Yes No
GE-Genesis 4X, 5x and LX SIG Yes No
Graphics Interchange Format GIF Yes No
Image Cytometry Standard ICS Yes Yes
InterFile HDR Yes Yes
Joint Photographics Experts Group JPEG, JFIF, JPG, JFI Yes Yes
Macintosh PICT PICT Yes Yes
Medical Image Network Common Data Form MNC Yes Yes
MICRO-CAT LOG Yes Yes
MIPAV Image XML Yes Yes
Lookup Table LUT Yes Yes
Transformation Matrix MTX Yes Yes
Graph PLT Yes Yes
Volume Of Interest XML, VOI Yes Yes
Text Annotation LBL Yes Yes
Medican Research Council MRC Yes No
Microsoft Windows Bitmap BMP, DIB Yes Yes
netCDF and masks CDF Yes Yes
Philips PARREC REC, FREC Yes No
PC Paintbrush PCX, DCX, PCC Yes Yes
PICT TBD Yes Yes
Portable Network Graphic PNG Yes Yes
QuickTime MOV, QT Yes Yes
Raw RAW Yes Yes
Siemens-Magnetom Vision IMA Yes Yes
Sun Raster RS, RAS Yes Yes
Tagged Image File Format TIFF, TIF Yes Yes
Truevision Graphics Adapter TGA, VST, VDA, ICB, TPIC Yes Yes
XBitMap XBM Yes Yes
XPixMap XPM Yes Yes
Zeiss-TIFF Topography (LSM 510/LSM 5) LSM Yes No

(1) MIPAV does not save extra information with the AFNI file. It only does the "bare minimum".

(2) AVIs are saved with encoding options:

  • Run-length
  • MPEG
  • MPEG-4
  • QuickTime

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