Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions
Case 7-2
You have always viewed images, but you have never been in a position of creating them-let alone creating them for a variety of uses and circumstances. You decide to give yourself a crash course in graphics file formats so you know exactly which format is ideal for each situation in your new graphics design internship, and so you know the disadvantages of each format.
Your company has a new client that requires your team to process a lot of images from medical imaging equipment. What is the format you are most likely to use to produce images for this client?
A)BMP
B)GIF
C)TIF
D)PNG

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

TIF (Tagged Image File Format) is the most commonly used format for medical imaging equipment. It supports high-quality, lossless compression and is compatible with a wide range of software applications. It also preserves transparency, layers, and other metadata. BMP (Bitmap) is a large file size and not suitable for medical imaging, GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is limited to 256 colors and not suitable for medical imaging, and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) supports transparency but is not commonly used in medical imaging.