Imaging method and system concatenating image data values to form an integer, and partitioning the integer

摘要

Imaging method and system useful for medical and other imaging. An image field is scanned as an array to yield a succession of values of optical density or other characteristic of interest. The resulting numerical values in preferably digital form are linked end to end to provide a large integral number, which is partitioned into a set of ordered numerical terms summing to the same number. Stored values are retrieved directly or by computation upon command and are processed and applied inversely to reconstitute the scanned values, from which a replica of the original image field is easily produced.