Dear all
Before going into and trying to find a technical solution to the
problem it would be good if decide if we need images. As far as I know
if we face with a problem to solve and we know that it is necessary to
solve then we find technical solution to the problem (either from
other fields or we find our own solution with some elements of
reinvention of new MX wheels).
Do we need images to store? What kind of information we can extract
from images that we cannot from amplitudes, intensities (even
unmerged)? Does anybody have a convincing argument for favour of images?
regards
Garib
On 18 Mar 2009, at 16:32, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:
> Actually the radiologists who manage CT and PET scans of brains do
> have
> a solution, called DICOM, see http://medical.nema.org/. If we work
> together as a community we should be able to do as well as the
> rocket scientists and the brain surgeons' radiologists, perhaps even
> better. -- Herbert
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> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Jacob Keller wrote:
>
>> Apparently it DOES take a rocket scientist to solve this problem.
>> Maybe the brain surgeons also have a solution?
>>
>> JPK
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaas Decanniere" <[log in to unmask]
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>> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] images
>>
>>
>>> Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:
>>> Other sciences have struggled with this and seem to have found an
>>> answer.
>>> Have e.g. a look at http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits.html
>>> kind regards,
>>> Klaas
>>>>
>>>> This is a good time to start a major crystallogrpahic image
>>>> archiving effort. Money may well be available now that will not be
>>>> avialable six month from now, and we have good, if not perfect,
>>>> solutions available for many, if not all, of the technical issues
>>>> involved. Is it really wise to let this opportunity pass us by?
>>>>>> The deposition of images would be possible providing some
>>>>>> consistent
>>>>>> imagecif format was agreed.
>>>>>> This would of course be of great use to developers for certain
>>>>>> pathological cases, but not I suspect much value to the user
>>>>>> community - I down load structure factors all the time for test
>>>>>> purposes but I probably would not bother to go through the data
>>>>>> processing, and unless there were extensive notes associated with
>>>>>> each set of images I suspect it would be hard to reproduce
>>>>>> sensible
>>>>>> results.
>>
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