Created the world's first terapixel image

The maximum size of digital photographs has long overstepped the boundary line of human eye perception. Now the “arms race” is going beyond this limit. New record set by doctors from the company Aperio . Using the scanner designed by them, the ScanScope managed to get an image measuring about one million per million pixels, that is, 1 trillion pixels. This is a glued image of 225 slides of a female breast cancer. The uncompressed image occupies 2876 GB, in compressed form - 143 GB. You can view it using a special browser here .



To write the file needed an improved version of the TIFF format called BigTIFF. If a regular TIFF is limited by a file size of 4 GB and a resolution of 30 gigapixels, then in the extended version of BigTIFF this restriction is removed.





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via Medgadget