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Francis Burton wrote:
> In article <hd9eac$8f0$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
> Steve Eddins  <Steve.Eddins@mathworks.com> wrote:
>> Can you send me the file?  If it's less than about 9 MB you can sent it 
>> to me via e-mail.
> 
> Sure! It's a bit over 6MB. I'll send it from my other email
> account. I appreciate your taking the time to look at this.
> 
> Francis

Thanks for sending me the file.

The file is a MetaMorph Stack (STK) file.  The multiple images in the 
file are not stored in the normal TIFF fashion. Rather, they are stored 
using proprietary private tags.

Here is documentation describing how the stack images are stored:

http://support.meta.moleculardevices.com/docs/t10243.pdf
ftp://ftp.meta.moleculardevices.com/support/stack/STK.doc

I found some MATLAB code online that claims to be able to read MetaMorph 
Stack files:

http://www.embl.de/~nedelec/misc/

---
Steve Eddins
http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/