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Key Output Files Reference

All paths below are relative to <path>/<subject_id>/analysis/anatMRI/.


T1 Native Space

File Description
T1/processed/data/T1.nii.gz Cropped, reoriented T1 (not bias-corrected)
T1/processed/data/T1_brain.nii.gz Skull-stripped T1
T1/processed/data/T1_brain_mask.nii.gz Binary brain mask
T1/processed/data/T1_unbiased.nii.gz Bias-corrected whole-head T1
T1/processed/data/T1_unbiased_brain.nii.gz Bias-corrected skull-stripped T1

T1 Standard Space

File Description
T1/processed/data2std/T1_2_std.nii.gz T1 in MNI152 1mm (linear registration)
T1/processed/data2std/T1_2_std_brain_lin.nii.gz Brain-only T1 in MNI (linear)
T1/processed/data2std/T1_2_std_warped.nii.gz T1 in MNI152 1mm (non-linear, RegType 2/3)
T1/processed/data2std/T1_2_std_brain_warped.nii.gz Brain-only T1 in MNI (non-linear)

Registration Transforms

File Description
T1/preproc/reg/T1_2_std.mat T1 → MNI linear affine
T1/preproc/reg/std_2_T1.mat MNI → T1 linear affine (inverse)
T1/preproc/reg/T1_2_std_warp_field.nii.gz T1 → MNI non-linear warp field
T1/preproc/reg/T1_2_std_warp_coeff.nii.gz FNIRT warp coefficients (RegType 2 only)
T1/preproc/reg/T1_2_std_warp_jac.nii.gz Jacobian of non-linear warp (RegType 2 only)
T1/preproc/reg/std_2_T1_warp_field.nii.gz MNI → T1 inverse warp field

Bias Field

File Description
T1/preproc/bias/T1_brain_bias.nii.gz FAST-estimated bias field

Tissue Segmentation

Single-Channel (T1 only)

File Description
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_pve_CSF.nii.gz CSF partial volume estimate
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_pve_GM.nii.gz Grey matter partial volume estimate
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_pve_WM.nii.gz White matter partial volume estimate
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_CSF_mask.nii.gz Binary CSF mask (PVE > 0.5)
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_GM_mask.nii.gz Binary grey matter mask
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_WM_mask.nii.gz Binary white matter mask
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_pveseg.nii.gz FAST hard segmentation (integer labels)
T1/processed/seg/tissue/sing_chan/T1_seg.nii.gz FAST segmentation map

Multi-Channel (T1 + T2, if T2 provided)

File Description
T1/processed/seg/tissue/multi_chan/T1_pve_CSF.nii.gz Joint FAST CSF PVE
T1/processed/seg/tissue/multi_chan/T1_pve_GM.nii.gz Joint FAST GM PVE
T1/processed/seg/tissue/multi_chan/T1_pve_WM.nii.gz Joint FAST WM PVE

Brain Volume (SIENAX)

File Description
T1/preproc/SIENAX/report.sienax Brain volume report with VSCALING, pgrey, vcsf, GREY, WHITE, BRAIN in mm³

Cortical Reconstruction

File Description
T1/processed/FreeSurfer/ FreeSurfer recon-all subject directory (if --freesurfer)
T1/processed/FastSurfer/ FastSurfer subject directory (if --fastsurfer)

Raw / Defaced

File Description
../../raw/anatMRI/T1/T1_orig.nii.gz Original T1 input copy
../../raw/anatMRI/T1/T1_orig_defaced.nii.gz De-faced original T1 (if defacing enabled)

T2 Outputs (if T2 provided)

File Description
T2/processed/data/T2.nii.gz T2 aligned to T1 native space
T2/processed/data/T2_brain.nii.gz Skull-stripped T2
T2/processed/data/T2_unbiased.nii.gz Bias-corrected T2
T2/processed/data2std/T2_2_std.nii.gz T2 in MNI space (linear)
T2/processed/data2std/T2_2_std_warped.nii.gz T2 in MNI space (non-linear)
T2/preproc/reg/T2_2_std.mat T2 → MNI affine
T2/preproc/lesions/final_mask.nii.gz Binary white matter lesion mask (BIANCA)
T2/preproc/lesions/volume.txt Total lesion volume in voxels
../../raw/anatMRI/T2/T2_orig_defaced.nii.gz De-faced original T2

Log

File Description
T1/log/log.txt Full processing log with timestamps, parameters, and software versions