If you have licensed ZEN Connect, the software supports the display of images with the specific Horiba LabSpec HDF5 Raman image format. These supported images basically represent a map (score map) of intensities of the different channels. This means the higher the concentration of a detected material, the higher the displayed color saturation. To display the data the image codec HDF5 is used.

HDF5 is only used as a standard image codec to display this specific type of image (Horiba LabSpec HDF5 Raman image format) and is not a HDF5 import!

Display of Raman Images

• The image can be opened just as any other image. In the file explorer, make sure that the file type is set either to HDF5 (*h5) or to Image files. Then the file(s) with the Horiba LabSpec HDF5 Raman image format can be selected.
• The files of this format can only be displayed, but changes to the image cannot be saved. To save the file after changing parameters (e.g. the image display curve), you have to save the image in another format like *.czi.
• To display the image(s) the FLOAT values of the original file are converted or mapped to 16 bit format. Exception: If the values in the file contain constant, NAN or INF values, no conversion to 16 bit is done.