.. _pylab_examples-mri_demo: pylab_examples example code: mri_demo.py ======================================== .. plot:: /home/tcaswell/src/p/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/mri_demo.py :: """Displays an MRI image.""" import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.cbook as cbook import matplotlib.cm as cm import numpy as np fig, ax = plt.subplots(num="MRI_demo") # Data are 256x256 16 bit integers dfile = cbook.get_sample_data('s1045.ima.gz') im = np.fromstring(dfile.read(), np.uint16).astype(float) im.shape = (256, 256) dfile.close() ax.imshow(im, cmap=cm.gray) ax.axis('off') plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)