Uploading Data

Uploading data from the scanner

After data collection, data can be sent to XNAT directly from the scanner. Partial data transfers will get stuck, so transfer an entire scan session at once, rather than run-by-run. If you are the operator at the console, select your dataset in the patient browser, then click Export.

Make sure all the series you want to send are checked, then select XNAT and click Export.

Automated routing from scanner to XNAT

If your XNAT project has been created and named to match your protocol on the scanner, XNAT will attempt to place the data coming from the scanner in the appropriate project using information from the DICOM metadata.

Naming for multi-session studies

If your study involves multiple scan sessions per participant, following a specific consistent naming scheme will allow XNAT to nicely organize your data so that each scan session is nested under the the correct participant like this:

Individual scan sessions ("SESSION1" and "SESSION2") for participant 005

To achieve this, you need to use the Last Name and Patient ID fields in a specific way when you register your participant at the beginning of a scan. In the Last Name field, enter the subject ID you have assigned to your participant (in this demodat example, we would enter 005). In the Patient ID field, enter the same subject ID *underscore* whatever you would like to use to label your different sessions. You could do "005_sess1", "005_sess2", etc., or something that describes the different phases of your study, like "005_pretraining", "005_training", "005_posttraining".

Using the Patient ID field to enable XNAT to nest multiple sessions under a single participant

If you scan the same participant multiple times and re-use the same Patient ID, your data will not get properly routed to your project without an XNAT administrator's help.

Uploading Non-MR Data

To upload your EEG or Physio data onto XNAT, see the instruction steps at page below.

Converting non-MR data