Ching, Thanks for sending information on this plugin. I will try whether this works on my data.
David, yes it would be great if this compression type will be supported by Bio-Formats as well. In the meantime, I have found a temporary solution for my issue. Open-source Olympus Stream View software is able to correctly load my images and allows me to export the images to TIFF format for further processing.
Thanks for your help,
Stefanie