File Formats

open_iA supports several file formats. It reads:

• Raw images (uncompressed binary data) (any extension; automatically detected as such: *.pro, *.raw, *.rec, *.vol)
• MetaImage (*.mhd, *.mha)
• STL files (Polygon data)
• VGI files
• PARS files
• DICOM series
• NRRD files (Nearly raw raster data)
• Olympus FluoView files (*.oif)
• AmiraMesh files (*.am) - only uncompressed volume data
• VTI files (Serial VTK Image data)
• .png/.tiff/.bmp images and stacks of such images
• (to be introduced:) Hierarchical Data Format v5 (*.hdf5, *.he5, *.h5) and Matlab (*.mat) files (.mat in version 7.3, see https://mathworks.com/help/matlab/import_export/mat-file-versions.html)

It writes:

• STL files
• MetaImage
• AmiraMesh files - only uncompressed volume data
• (to be introduced:) ITK HDF5 files