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Gif
To clear out any misconception: this is not a medical image format. It is only included as link to most desktop image processing utilities. In our early days we didn't know about Gtk+. All we had was John Bradley's notorious Xv to display our conversions. Too bad Unisys patented that LZW compression back then (now expired) and so we went for PNG.
We must remind you of the fact that (X)MedCon saves patient & study information inside a comment block which doesn't make it as anonymous as you might think.
Long before all this and the internet ... I learned image conversion in C from two excellent and rather amusing books (msdos environment): "
Bitmapped Graphics" and its successor:
"Supercharged Bitmapped Graphics"
written by Steve Rimmer published by Windcrest(r)/McGraw-Hill ISBN: 0-8306-3788-5
Do you still have a 1MB Trident 8900 SVGA card available?
| Format: GIF89a | ||
| Item | Supported | Unsupported |
| Color Map | 256 indexed palette | - |
| File Endian | little | big |
| Pixel Types | Uint8 | any other integers, float, double |
| Scaling Factors | quantify & calibrate factors / image are NOT supported | |
| Dimensions / Image | different dimensions for each image are supported | |
| Pixel Types / Image | different pixeltypes for each image are NOT supported | |
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