# Fail to load a big tiff stack 

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/fail-to-load-a-big-tiff-stack/4832>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 21, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/fail-to-load-a-big-tiff-stack/4832 "2018-11-21T14:06:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/fail-to-load-a-big-tiff-stack/4832/8 "2018-11-23T15:06:30Z")

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Microscopy is a big field with a lot of different use cases.

Most related to Slicer’s core uses is pathology imaging. Even here the vendors have many competing proprietary systems, but there is a workable DICOM standard for pathology slide imaging and [it has a lot of advantages](http://www.jpathinformatics.org/article.asp?issn=2153-3539;year=2018;volume=9;issue=1;spage=37;epage=37;aulast=Herrmann;type=0).

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