help > RE: Meaning of letters in CONN-generated file names
Oct 17, 2025  01:10 PM | Alfonso Nieto-Castanon - Boston University
RE: Meaning of letters in CONN-generated file names

Hi Fabian,


SPM/CONN add prefixes to the filenames for the outputs of each preprocessing step (e.g. a prefix 'u' is added when you run the "realign and unwarp" preprocessing step). These prefixes are described in https://web.conn-toolbox.org/fmri-method...


Also, in case this helps, a file named swauswaufPriming.nii indicates that you may have run a standard preprocessing pipeline two times sequentially on the same data (which is not a good idea); assuming that your original functional data was named 'fPriming.nii', so a file named 'swaufPriming.nii' would be the output of a standard pipeline that runs realignment (ufPriming.nii), STC (aufPriming.nii), normalization (waufPriming.nii) and smoothing (swaufPriming).


Hope this helps


Alfonso


Originally posted by Fabian Wissing:



Hi there,

During preprocessing, CONN generates files such as:


.../p01/wc2cwc0csT1_RAS.nii
.../swauswaufPriming.nii


Could someone explain what the different letters in this filename (e.g., w, c2, etc.) stand for?


Thanks in advance!


 



 

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Fabian Wissing Oct 10, 2025
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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Oct 17, 2025