Hi,
sorry if my question was to basic, but I would really appreciate if somebody could give me some insight into whether the folder organization and the subject name used in the first run of recon-all have to be stable over all all following processing steps or if one can, e.g., change the names of the subject folders and/or symlink them to another location (with another name) and continue with further processing.
Thanks,
Janosch
Am 13.01.2014 um 13:34 schrieb Janosch Linkersdörfer notes4januz@googlemail.com:
Hi all,
I have 4 years of structural scans from children and 2 from adults. I would like to analyze the data both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. In the recommendations for the longitudinal analysis, it says one should process all images in one folder with the time point in the subjectID/subject folder, e.g.,
.../data/tp1_subj001 .../data/tp2_subj001 .../data/tp3_subj001 .../data/tp4_subj001 .../data/tp1_subj002 ...
For the cross-sectional analyses, I would like to organize the analyses in folders for subject age and year, e.g.,
.../data/children/tp1/subj001 .../data/children/tp1/subj002 .../data/children/tp2/subj001 .../data/children/tp2/subj002 ... .../data/adults/tp1/adult_subj001 .../data/adults/tp1/adult_subj002 .../data/adults/tp2/adult_subj001 .../data/adults/tp2/adult_subj001
Is it possible to organize the data this way and to symlink the individual folders into another folder for the longitudinal analysis, i.e.,
.../longitudinal_analysis/tp1_subj001 -> .../data/children/tp1/subj001 .../longitudinal_analysis/tp2_subj001 -> .../data/children/tp2/subj001 ...
Additionally, are there any considerations regarding renaming/moving subject folders (as long as anything inside a subject folder remains unchanged), i.e. are there any hard links or similar that would break further processing?
Thanks a lot!
Janosch