Hi Steve, et al.
Here's a module for reading Leica confocal data.
I didn't write up a .txt file, sorry. But there's really little to it.
I included the total comments at the front of the source.
Also included are two sample datasets. The larger one is the prettier
of the two. The other one is bland, but illustrates the point that one
can go from one to the other without problem or memory leak.

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NOTE:  THE SAMPLE DATASETS FOR THIS MODULE CAN BE FOUND IN
       avs.ncsc.org:/sample_data/avs_data/read_Leica in the files:
-rw-rw-r--  1 avs       1149052 Oct 17 12:07 read_Leica_testData1.tar.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 avs        937039 Oct 17 12:07 read_Leica_testData2.tar.Z

-Steve Thorpe
 avs@ncsc.org
 International AVS Center
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Anyway, have fun with them. 
Bye,
-A.J.

/* ************************************************************************
       Read Leica Confocal module, designed to read in output from the 
       Leica CLSM in it's native file format (not TIFF). The module is
       looking for a {imagename}.info file which it parses for the image
       plane numbers and plane sizes. It uses these values to open each
       image file in order. The contents are deposited in a 3D scalar byte
       field at the output port. Lots of error checking is done to make sure
       the .info file is not corrupted, and the data files read correctly.

       To generate files within CLSM, use the "save {filename}" command.
       Do NOT use compress, huffman, tiff or voxelview commands. (For example
       if tiff is on, enter the command "tiff 0" to turn it off.)
       No CR<->LF conversion or endian byte swapping is necessary for 
       conversion from OS-9 to unix. FTP, rcp or NFS will work for file
       transfer or the module will read correctly from an NFS mounted
       OS-9 disk. 

       Written by Andy Jacobson
                  UCLA Dept. Pharmacology / Div. Nuclear Medicine
		  CHS B2-086
		  UCLA School of Medicine
		  Los Angeles, CA 90024-6948
		  <afj@DrMemory.nuc.ucla.edu>  or <afj@chem.ucla.edu>

   
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