The "Format" Page

 

This page control some of the data formating used in sliceOmatic.

 

 

 

Date format

 

By default, we use the Canadian way of expressing dates, but if that's confusing for you, you can change the date format.

 

The choices are

Expressed as (y=year,m=month,d=day)

Ex; for 24 April 1960

CAN

dd/mm/yyyy

24/04/1960

USA

mm/dd/yyyy

04/24/1960

Text

dd month yyyy

04 Apr 1960

EUR 1

dd/mm/yyyy

24/04/1960

EUR 2

dd.mm.yyyy

24.04.1960

EUR 3

dd-mm-yyyy

24-04-1960

ISO 8601

yyyy-mm-dd

1960-04-24

 

Floating point

 

You can specify the precision (number of significant digits) you want to use for floating point values.  The choices are between 1 and 8 digits.

 

Units

A number of tools and mode display and save dimension information. You can change the units used for these. These are just cosmetic changes, the actual computations are all based on the units specified in the image’s headers.

 

For distances, the choices are:           m, cm, mm or µm

For surfaces, the choices are:           m2, cm2, mm2 or µm2

For volumes, the choices are:           m3, cm3, mm3 or µm3

 

 

Other formating may be present if you loaded some of the optional modules:

 

SCANCO

When you read pQCT images from the SCANCO manufacturer, you have the option of having the pixels calibrated in either Hounsfield (HU) or densities (mg HA/ccm).  Please note that this choice must be made before the images are read in sliceO.