.. _reproin: reproin ======= This is the reproin heuristic, copied from `heudiconv `_ .. code-block:: console (AKA dbic-bids) Flexible heuristic to establish BIDS DataLad datasets hierarchy Initially developed and deployed at Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center (http://dbic.dartmouth.edu) using Siemens Prisma 3T under the umbrellas of the Center of Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation (ReproNim, http://repronim.org) and Center for Open Neuroscience (CON, http://centerforopenneuroscience.org). ## Dataset ownership/location Datasets will be arranged in a hierarchy similar to how study/exam cards are arranged at the scanner console. You should have - "region" defined per each PI, - on the first level most probably as PI_StudentOrRA/ (e.g., Gobbini_Matteo) - StudyID_StudyName/ (e.g. 1002_faceangles) - Arbitrary name for the exam card -- it doesn't get into Study Description. Selecting specific exam card would populate Study Description field using aforementioned levels, which will be used by this heuristic to decide on the location of the dataset. In case of multiple sessions, it is recommended to generate separate "cards" per each session. ## Sequence naming on the scanner console Sequence names on the scanner must follow this specification to avoid manual conversion/handling: [PREFIX:][_ses-][_task-][_acq-][_run-][_dir-][][__] where [PREFIX:] - leading capital letters followed by : are stripped/ignored <...> - value to be entered [...] - optional -- might be nearly mandatory for some modalities (e.g., run for functional) and very optional for others *ID - alpha-numerical identifier (e.g. 01,02, pre, post, pre01) for a run, task, session. Note that makes more sense to use numerical values for RUNID (e.g., _run-01, _run-02) for obvious sorting and possibly descriptive ones for e.g. SESID (_ses-movie, _ses-localizer) a known BIDS sequence type which is usually a name of the folder under subject's directory. And (optional) label is specific per sequence type (e.g. typical "bold" for func, or "T1w" for "anat"), which could often (but not always) be deduced from DICOM. Known to BIDS modalities are: anat - anatomical data. Might also be collected multiple times across runs (e.g. if subject is taken out of magnet etc), so could (optionally) have "_run" definition attached. For "standard anat" labels, please consult to "8.3 Anatomy imaging data" but most common are 'T1w', 'T2w', 'angio' func - functional (AKA task, including resting state) data. Typically contains multiple runs, and might have multiple different tasks different per each run (e.g. _task-memory_run-01, _task-oddball_run-02) fmap - field maps dwi - diffusion weighted imaging (also can as well have runs) _ses- (optional) a session. Having a single sequence within a study would make that study follow "multi-session" layout. A common practice to have a _ses specifier within the scout sequence name. You can either specify explicit session identifier (SESID) or just say to maintain, create (starts with 1). You can also use _ses-{date} in case of scanning phantoms or non-human subjects and wanting sessions to be coded by the acquisition date. _task- (optional) a short name for a task performed during that run. If not provided and it is a func sequence, _task-UNKNOWN will be automatically added to comply with BIDS. Consult http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/tasks on known tasks. _acq- (optional) a short custom label to distinguish a different set of parameters used for acquiring the same modality (e.g. _acq-highres, _acq-lowres etc) _run- (optional) a (typically functional) run. The same idea as with SESID. _dir-[AP,PA,LR,RL,VD,DV] (optional) to be used for fmap images, whenever a pair of the SE images is collected to be used to estimate the fieldmap (optional) any other fields (e.g. _acq-) from BIDS acquisition __ (optional) after two underscores any arbitrary comment which will not matter to how layout in BIDS. But that one theoretically should not be necessary, and (ab)use of it would just signal lack of thought while preparing sequence name to start with since everything could have been expressed in BIDS fields. ## Last moment checks/FAQ: - Functional runs should have _task- field defined - Do not use "+", "_" or "-" within SESID, TASKID, ACQLABEL, RUNID, so we could detect "canceled" runs. - If run was canceled -- just copy canceled run (with the same index) and re-run it. Files with overlapping name will be considered duplicate/canceled session and only the last one would remain. The others would acquire __dup0 suffix. Although we still support "-" and "+" used within SESID and TASKID, their use is not recommended, thus not listed here