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Subject: Re: Problem reading multi-image TIFF files
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In article <hd9j7f$q54$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Steve Eddins  <Steve.Eddins@mathworks.com> wrote:
>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/

Looks hopeful! I had to change 

~isempty(IMG.info)   to    isfield(IMG, 'info')

to get rid of an error message, but it seems to allow access to
all images in the stack, which is what I needed.

Many thanks for your help. I think you saved me a lot of hassle.

Francis