Nikon NIS-Elements ND2

Extensions: .nd2

Developer: Nikon USA

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions:

Readers:

• NativeND2Reader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)
• LegacyND2Reader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

Freely Available Software:

• NIS-Elements Viewer from Nikon

We currently have:

• many ND2 datasets

We would like to have:

• an official specification document

Ratings

Pixels:

Metadata:

Openness:

Presence:

Utility:

Additional Information

There are two distinct versions of ND2: an old version, which uses JPEG-2000 compression, and a new version which is either uncompressed or Zip-compressed. We are not aware of the version number or release date for either format.

Bio-Formats uses the JAI Image I/O Tools library to read ND2 files compressed with JPEG-2000.

There is also a legacy ND2 reader that uses Nikon’s native libraries. To use it, you must be using Windows 32-bit and have Nikon’s ND2 reader plugin for ImageJ installed. Additionally, you will need to download LegacyND2Reader.dll and place it in your ImageJ plugin folder. Note that this reader is unmaintained and no additional support effort will be made.