Scan Session Tool: (f)MRI scan session documentation and archiving

There is an urgent need to improve the reproducibility of (functional) MRI research through transparent reporting, but standardization in this domain is currently lacking. Shared MR images are often only made available after transformation into a derivative data format (e.g. BIDS), and scan session documentation is commonly either manually implemented (e.g. with hand written notes) or neglected entirely.

Scan Session Tool was written to fill this gap, and to be used by neuroscientists, to help them increase transparency and reproducibilty of their MRI research by standardizing scan session documentation and raw data archiving.

Scan Session Tool is a graphical application for documenting (f)MRI scan sessions and automatized data archiving. Information about the scan session itself, used forms and documents, as well as the single measurements can be entered and saved into a protocol file. This information can furthermore be used to copy acquired data (DICOM images as well as optional stimulation protocols and logfiles into a specific hierarchical folder structure for unified archiving purposes, with optional sepcial support for (Turbo-)BrainVoyager.