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[edit] Naming Scan Sessions

It is NIH requirement to keep the identity of participants in each experiment confidential. To do so name the folder in which each session will be stored as follows:

 <first 3 letters of the cbi Subject ID>+<YYYYMMDD>

Example folders are:

• for subject ID ESOG2PHM scanned on April 2nd, 2008 use: esog20080402,
• for subject ID HJLF88AM scanned on April 3rd, 2008 use: hjl20080403

Please use only lower case characters because some of the scripts we use to do segmentation and preprocessing are case sensitive. This allows us to maintain short folder names with the same probability of having more than one participant with the same three letters as if we were using participant initials.

This naming convention is required by all new studies started after April 1st, 2008. If you have mostly completed a dataset then it is ok to leave it as is and complete the project using a different convention. But if you have only a partial dataset or are just beginning to collect data for a study, then please adopt this convention and convert (for consistency) the directory names of the existing sessions to this new convention.