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Currently Supported File Types

Format Extensions Comments
BioRad .pic
  • No Multi-plane "stitched" files support.

  • No annotated ROI images support.
Bitmap .pic
  • No compressed file support.
  • No multi-plane color images support.
DeltaVision .dv, *.r3d, *.r3d_d3d  
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine .dicom, .dic, .dcm
  • No compressed file support.
Amersham Biosciences GEL .gel  
Graphics Interchange Format .gif  
Image Cytometry Standard .ics, .ids  
Bitplane Imaris .ims  
Improvision Tiff .tif  
Joint Photographic Experts Group .jpeg,.jpg
  • Lossless JPEG is not supported.
Leica "lei" Format .lei  
Leica Image Format .lif  
Li-Cor L2D .l2d  
Metamorph .stk  
Nikon NIS-Elements .nd2
  • ND2 images based on the Lossless JPEG standard are not supported.
Olympus Slidebook .sld  
Olympus FluoView FV1000 .oib, .oif  
Openlab Raw .raw  
Openlab LIFF .liff  
PerkinElmer UltraView .tif, .2, .3, etc  
PICT (Machintosh Picture) .pict  
Portable Gray Map .pgm  
Portable Network Graphic .png  
Prairie Technologies TIFF .png  
Tagged Image File Format .tif, .tiff
  • This is a very open standard, so expect a few variant types to be unsupported.
  • No OME Tiff format support.
Visitech XYS .xys
  • The Visitech importer does not fully support all Visitech metadata included in the accompanying html file.
Zeiss LSM .lsm  
Zeiss AxioVision .zvi