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

Scan Session Tool is a cross-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) graphical application for standardised real-time documentation of (functional) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan sessions and automatised archiving of the collected (raw) data.The software allows session information (i.e.metadata, project-and subject-specific notes/documents, as well as a detailed log of acquired MRI measurements) to be entered in a fast and convenient way during a session (see also Figure 1) and to be saved into a human-and machine-readable protocol file (in YAML format) that facilitates both sharing with other researchers and integration into automatised procedures.Scan Session Tool can furthermore use this scan session documentation itself to automatically organise the raw data (i.e.DICOM images) of all acquired measurements, as well as any related logfiles (e.g.stimulation protocols, response time recordings, etc.) into a unified hierarchical folder structure for archiving purposes (see also Figure 2).In addition, the software has (optional) special support for BrainVoyager and (Turbo-)BrainVoyager (which is commonly used for real-time functional MRI measurements).This entails the creation of links to DICOM images using dedicated filename conventions (BrainVoyager and Turbo-BrainVoyager) as well as adapting references to files and data to reflect the archived folder structure (Turbo-BrainVoyager).