AFNI

header HEAD, data BRIK

See "AFNI"

Y

Y[#1330166 ¹]

Analyze

header HDR, data IMG

See "Analyze files"

Y

Y

TBD

Apple Macintosh

PICT

TBD.

Y

Y

ASCII text

TXT

MIPAV defined ascii text surface format. The text surface file records the triangle mesh vertices, normal and connectivity.

Y

Y

Audio Video Interleave

AVI

Uncompressed RLE8

See "Audio Video Interleave (AVI) files"

Y

Y[#1330210 ²]

TBD

BFLOAT

BFLOAT

TBD.

Y

Y

Bruker

d3pro, reco, acqp, 2dseq

See "Bruker data format"

Y

Y

TBD

Cheschire

IMC, IMG

TBD

Y

Y

TBD

Cheschire Overlay

OLY

TBD

Y

N

DICOM 2.0

DCM, IMA

See "Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) files"

Y

Y

TBD

DM3

DM3

TBD

FITS

FTS

See "FITS"

Y

Y

TBD

FreeSurfer surface

ASCII, ASC

See "FreeSurfer image and surface files"

Y

Y

TBD

FreeSurfer image

COR

INFO for the header file and NNN for each slice where NN is the number of the slice

Y

Y

TBD

GE - Genesis 5X and LX

SIG

See "GE - Genesis 5X and LX"

Y

Y

TBD

GE Signa 4.x

GEDNO

TBD

Y

N

TBD

Image Cytometry Standard

ICS,

IDS

See "ICS (Image Cytometry Standard)"

Y

Y

TBD

Interfile

HDR

TBD

Y

Y

TBD

Laser Scanning Microscope (Zeiss)

LSM

See "Laser Scanning Microscope (Zeiss)"

Y

N

TBD

LIFF

LIFF

See "LIFF"

TBD

Magnetron Vision

IMA

TBD

Y

Y

MAP

MAP

TBD

Y

N

Medical Image Network Common Data Form (including ROIs)

MNC

See "Medical Image NetCDF (MINC) files"

Y

Y

TBD

MEDIVISION

BIN

TBD

Y

Y

TBD

MetaMorph Stack

STK

TBD

Y

Y

TBD

Medical Research Council

MRC

See "Medical Research Council (MRC)"

Y

Y

TBD

MGH/MGZ volume format

MGH,

MGZ

MGH for uncompressed storage; MGZ or.MGH.GZ for compressed storage

Y

Y

TBD

MICRO-CAT (LOG)

LOG,

CT

See "MICRO-CAT"

TBD

MINC 1.0, 2.0

MNC

See "Medical Image NetCDF (MINC) files"

Y

Y

MIPAV-specific file formats

MIPAV LUT

LUT

See "MIPAV (LUT) files"

MIPAV MTX

MTX

See "MIPAV (MTX) files"

MIPAV PLT

PLT

See "MIPAV (PLT) files"

MIPAV SUR

SUR

See "MIPAV (SUR) files"

MIPAV TXT

TXT

See also "MIPAV text file format"

MIPAV VOI

VOI, XML

See ["MIPAV (VOI) files"

MIPAV XML

XML

Full support, see "MIPAV XML"

N/A

End of MIPAV-specific file formats

MRC

MRC

TBD

Y

Y

Nearly Raw Raster Data (NRRD)

1 file with extension of.NRRD or 2 files with extension of.NHDR for header file and.RAW,.TXT,.HEX,.RAW.GZ, or.RAW.BZ2 for data file

Y

Y

NIFTI

2 files with header HDR and data IMG; or a single file.NII

See "NIFTI"

Y

Y

OSM

WU

TBD

Optical Coherence Tomography

TMG

TBD

Y

Y

Phillips

PAR and PARV2 for header files and REC and FREC for data files

PAR and PARV2 for header files and REC and FREC for data files

See "Phillips PAR/REC"

Y

Y

TBD

PICT

PICT

Encoding of black and white images as bitmap mode PICTs. Encodes grayscale images from 2 to 8-bits as palette mode (PICT format does not have grayscale mode). Encodes palette images as palette mode PICTS, encodes other images as a 24-bit 3 component directed bits PICT.

Decoding of black and white and up to (and including) 32-bit color PICT images. Also supports the decoding of compressed PICT images.

Y

Y

N/A

Polygon File Format or Stanford Triangle Format

PLY

See "Polygon File Format"

Y

Y

QuickTime

QT

See "QuickTime-Apple"

Y

Y

TBD

RAW

RAW

See "Raw data files"

Y

Y

TBD

Siemens CT

Old Siemens Somatom CT format (DR3)

Y

Y

TBD

Siemens - Magnetom Vision

IMA

See "Siemens - Magnetom Vision"

Y

Y

TBD

Siemens MicroCAT

LOG, CT

See also "MICRO-CAT"

Y

Y

SPM

SPM

TBD

Y

Y

STL

STLA, STLB

See also "STL (ASCII and Binary)"

Y

Y

Truevision Graphics Adapter

TGA, VST, VDA, ICB, TPIC

Encodes index color images in an uncompressed TGA palette format; encodes other images in an uncompressed 24-bit TGA format.

Decodes black and white, palette, true color uncompressed images. Decodes 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit true color variants (can include loading of alpha channel).

Y

Y

N/A

Washington University OSM dataset Structure

WU

TBD

Y

Y

TBD

Common raster file formats

Adobe Photoshop

PSD

Encoding of bitmap, grayscale, RGB, and index mode images. Also supports the encoding of RLE compression for all image variants.

Decoding of Adobe Photoshop v 2.5 images (and above) with the following modes: bitmap, grayscale, palette, and RGB.

Y

Y

Alpha saving

BIORAD

PIC

See "BIORAD"

Y

Y

TBD

Graphics Interchange File

GIF

Decoding of interlaced images and images with a transparency information set. See also "Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) files"

Y

N

Encoding of a GIF file

Decoding of multiframe GIFs using the multiframe load mechanism

Joint Photographics Experts Group

JPEG, JPG, JFIF, JFI

See "Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG/JFIF) files"

Y

Y

TBD

Microsoft Windows Bitmap

BMP, DIB

Encoding of Index Color Model images as uncompressed BMP palette formats. Other Color Model images are encoded as uncompressed 24-bit BMP formatted files.

Decoding of BMP version 2.x through 4.x files. Also supports the encoding of OS/2 variant files. Supports the encoding of true color and palette images, as well as Run-Length Encoding 8 (RLE8) and RLE4 images. See "Microsoft Windows Bitmap (BMP) files"

Y

Y

Decoding of old versions of BMP files (prior to version 2.x)

Microsoft Windows Cursor

CUR

Y

Y

Microsoft Windows icon

ICO

Y

Y

PC Paintbrush File Format

PCX, DCX, PCC

Encoding of PCX files including uncompressed and RLE-compressed support.

Full support for decoding of PCX files. See "PC Paintbrush (PCX) files"

Y

Y

N/A

Portable Network Graphic Format

PNG

Encodes index images as palette PNG images. Also encodes grayscale formatted images (which include grayscale and direct color) with bit masks saved in grayscale file format. Direct color and RGB are encoded as RGB images with an alpha mask (if mask is available from the image). 16-bit depth images are truncated to 8-bit depth when the image is loaded.

Decoding of palette, grayscale, and true color images. Also supports the transparency chunk for palette based images.

Y

Y

Some extension chunks (such as ALPHA)

Sun Raster

RS, RAS

Encodes 8-bit index color images with or without RLE compression or RGB format for other color models.

Decoding of 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32-bit images. Supports the decoding of the old, standard, byte encoded, RGB, TIFF, and IFF format type. See "Sun Raster (RS) files"

Decoding of RAW color map or experimental type images

TARGA

TGA

See also "TARGA"

Y

Y

Tag Image File Format

TIF, TIFF

See also "Tag Image File Format (TIFF) files"

Y

Y

Tiled

X BitMap

XBM

Encoding of 2-color XBM images.

Fully supports the decoding of XBM formatted files.

N/A

X PixMap

XPM

Encoding of XPM palette images.

Fully supports the decoding of XPM formatted files.

Y

Y

Decoding of image files with 3 or more characters per pixel/voxel

End of common raster file formats

Surface description file formats

ASCII text

TXT

Y

Y

ASCII Poly

POLY

See also "POLY"

Y

Y

ASCII PLY

PLY

See also "Polygon File Format"

ASCII STL

STL

See also "STL (ASCII and Binary)"

Y

Y

Binary STL

STLB

See also "STL (ASCII and Binary)"

Y

Y

Legacy VTK

VTK

See also "Legacy VTK"

Y

Y

MIPAV TXT

TXT

See also "MIPAV text file format"

Y

Y

MIPAV surface files

SUR

See also "MIPAV (SUR) files"

Y

Y

VRML

WRL

See also "VRML"

Y

Y

VTK XML

VTP

See also "VTK XML surface"

Y

Y

XML surface

XML

See also "XML surface"

Y

Y