A live cell imaging experiment acquires 10 images per second for 10 minutes. The detector is a grayscale CCD detector with 1000×1024 pixels. If the grayscale data is stored in 16-bit format, calculate...

A live cell imaging experiment acquires 10 images per second for 10 minutes. The detector is a grayscale CCD detector with 1000×1024 pixels. If the grayscale data is stored in 16-bit format, calculate the minimum storage requirement in megabytes (MB) for the acquired data.

Assuming a CCD detector, discuss the advantages of binning as an on-chip operation, in comparison to software binning, i.e., the addition of pixels after the image has been read out into the computer’s memory.