Opening an image (.raw, other properties in body) in matlab

Hi all,

As a prelude, I'd like to say that I'm a complete Matlab novice! Right. So I'm trying to open a .raw, 16 bit unsigned, 9728 wide and 9265 high image. It has little endean byte order. I've read a few other questions regarding images and it seems that some of them miss vital information so let me know if I've overlooked any info I need to give you all. I've tried:

 a = imfinfo('[T:\...\pinhole_1-8_4s.raw]')

(note: the "..." in the file location represents more folders in the file path that I did write in, in the actual code) but this gave back:

 Error using imfinfo (line 112)
 Unable to determine file format.

I've also tried:

 a = imread('[file location]')

but I got back:

 Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space.
(and then a lot more lines of red text)

I tried changing java heap memory in the preferences to the max 482 Mb to no avail, even though the file size is 176 Mb. Help? I have I feeling I'm overlooking something really silly, like the way I've written my file path is wrong or something.

Best regards,

Guy

[Geoff Hayes]

Guy - is there any particular format for this image (jpeg, bmp, etc.), or is it just a (2D) 9265x9728 grayscale image? What does raw mean to you?