Dear all,

I am very new to ITK and have a probably very simple question I could not find a clear answer for using google and the standard documentation (I also skipped through the Doxygen documentation, but I was not able to dive into the code as deep as the answer to my question would require :( ).

3D data typically requires large amounts of memory - in the orders of 100MB - 1000MB . It is typically not a good idea to allocate data ranges that large as a single big chunk of memory. So I wonder: If I set up a large 3D image with ITK - is the memory split up internally (like volume slices or whatever)? Or does ITK try to do something like (probably a bit oversimplified, but it should make clear what I mean) :

float *p = new p [1024*1024*1024];

?

Many thanks for clarification and best regards,

Jakob