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Read Andor CCD camera .sif file format in IDL?
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M. Katz
2012-03-05 19:07:46 UTC
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Has anyone written an image-file reader for Andor CCD-cameras' .sif file format? I see that such things exist for MATLAB.
Thanks, M.
j***@gmail.com
2012-03-05 20:01:11 UTC
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Post by M. Katz
Has anyone written an image-file reader for Andor CCD-cameras' .sif file format? I see that such things exist for MATLAB.
Thanks, M.
Bruxton has a package for capturing data capture from Andor cameras, among others, directly from IDL. I don't know if they have a stand-alone image file format reader, however.

http://www.bruxton.com/SIDX/

Jim P.
(This isn't to be construed as an endorsement of Bruxton or their products.)
M. Katz
2012-03-05 20:33:58 UTC
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That's very helpful. I'll look into it. For now, all I'm really looking for is 20 lines of code to handle the headers and read the data into an array correctly. I poked around with readu and byteorder but after 15 minutes I decided I shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel.
Gianguido Cianci
2012-03-05 21:19:20 UTC
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Post by M. Katz
Has anyone written an image-file reader for Andor CCD-cameras' .sif file format? I see that such things exist for MATLAB.
Thanks, M.
Also, you could try BIO-FORMATS:
http://loci.wisc.edu/bio-formats-format/andor-bio-imaging-division-abd-tiff

Bet you Andor's TIFF is also known as SIF...

I don't use bioformats directly from idl, but rather use a shell scripts to convert to regular tiff and then get on with it in IDL...

Gianguido
p***@gmail.com
2012-06-29 13:44:13 UTC
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Post by M. Katz
Has anyone written an image-file reader for Andor CCD-cameras' .sif file format? I see that such things exist for MATLAB.
Thanks, M.
I'm looking to do the same, have you found a solution already?

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