Bitplane Imaris

Extensions: .ims

Owner: Oxford Instruments (formerly Bitplane)

Support

BSD-licensed:

Export:

Officially Supported Versions: 2.7, 3.0, 5.5

Readers:

• ImarisHDFReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

• ImarisTiffReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

• ImarisReader (Source Code, Supported Metadata Fields)

Freely Available Software:

• Imaris writer

We currently have:

• an Imaris (RAW) specification document (from no later than 1997 November 11, in HTML)

• an Imaris 5.5 (HDF) specification document

• Bitplane’s bfFileReaderImaris3N code (from no later than 2005, in C++)

• several older Imaris (RAW) datasets

• one Imaris 3 (TIFF) dataset

• several Imaris 5.5 (HDF) datasets

• public sample images

We would like to have:

• an Imaris 3 (TIFF) specification document

• more Imaris 3 (TIFF) datasets

Ratings

Pixels:

Metadata:

Openness:

Presence:

Utility:

Additional Information

• There are three distinct Imaris formats:

  1. the old binary format (introduced in Imaris version 2.7)

  2. Imaris 3, a TIFF variant (introduced in Imaris version 3.0)

  3. Imaris 5.5, an HDF variant (introduced in Imaris version 5.5)