+</TABLE>
+<!##############################################>
+<H2>Supported "Photometric Interpretation" pixel format (Writing)</H2>
+The Photometric Interpretation UID is in the file DICOM Tag field (0028,0004).
+
+<TABLE WIDTH="800" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="10"
+ BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
+<TR BGCOLOR="#99ccff">
+ <TH> Photometric Interpretation" pixel format </TH>
+ <TH> Description </TH>
+</TR>
+<TR>
+ <TD> MONOCHROME2 </TD>
+ <TD> grey level image description (high values=bright, low values=dark)</TD>
+</TR>
+<TR>
+ <TD> PALETTE COLOR </TD>
+ <TD> pseudo color image description</TD>
+</TR>
+<TR>
+ <TD> RGB </TD>
+ <TD> true color image description</TD>
+</TR>
+
+</TABLE>
+
+
+<!##############################################>
+<H2>Supported 'Bits Allocated' values (Reading)</H2>
+The Bits Allocated value is in the file DICOM Tag field (0020,0100).
+
+<TABLE WIDTH="800" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="10"
+ BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
+<!####### Uncompressed #########>
+<TR BGCOLOR="#99ccff">
+ <TH> Classical values </TH>
+ <TH> Description </TH>
+</TR>
+<TR>
+ <TD> 8, 12, 16 </TD>
+ <TD> 12 means that 4 pixels are stored in 3 'short int'</TD>
+</TR>
+<TR BGCOLOR="#99ccff">
+ <TH> Unusual values </TH>
+ <TH> Description </TH></TR>
+<TR>
+ <TD> 24 </TD>
+ <TD> Some ACR-NEMA RGB files came with 'Bits Allocated' = 24
+ and 'Samples Per Pixel' = 1, or with no 'Samples Per Pixel'
+ at all </TD>
+</TR>
+<TR>
+ <TD> 32 </TD>
+ <TD> Some ACR-NEMA files, from CT, came with 'Bits Allocated' = 32
+ (probabely 65535 grey levels was not enough for them ...)
+ </TD>
+</TR>
+</TABLE>
+