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Downloading data from XNAT§

We recommend installing the XNAT Desktop client application to help with downloading and uploading of data. If you don't want to use XNAT Desktop you can download data as a zip file.

For more download options see the XNAT documentation.

Download all project data§

  • Navigate to your project
  • Browse->My Projects->(your project name))

  • From the Actions menu select Download Images Download Images

  • Under 1: Select Sessions, ensure All is checked to download all data from all subjects

  • If you only want to download certain sessions, instead check the ones you want to download.
  • Under 2: Select Image Data, ensure All is checked in each section to download all scans and resources.
  • If you only want to download certain types of scans and resources, instead check the ones you want to download.
  • If you have XNAT Desktop Client installed and want to use this:
  • Under 3: Download data select Option 1: Download via Desktop Client
  • Click Submit
  • Click Download Via App
  • Follow the browser prompts to launch the XNAT Desktop Client
  • When XNAT Desktop Client launches it shows a Download XNAT ML catalog files dialog. Downloading with the XNAT Desktop client
  • The download folder on your machine is shown in Set Destination. You can change this by clicking the Browse button.
  • Click Download
  • If you don't have XNAT Desktop client or you prefer to download the data directly:
  • Select Option 2: ZIP download to download all the data as a single zip file.
  • Select Download ZIP
  • Follow you browser prompts to save the zip file

Download data for a particular session (experiment)§

  • Navigate to the particular session you wish to download
  • From the Actions menu select Download->Download Images
  • Follow the steps above.

Download Images

Quick download of scans for a particular session (experiment) as a zip file§

  • Navigate to the particular session you wish to download
  • Under Scans, select the scans you wish to download
  • Next to Bulk actions: click Download

Download Scans

Download data from XNAT search results and data tables§

When viewing an XNAT data table containing sessions, you can download this session by selecting Options > Download from the data table menu and following the steps above.

XNAT Table Download

Download individual resource or scan files§

You can use the Manage Files feature to download individual files. resource files within a particular session.

  • Navigate to the session report page and then
  • On the Actions menu select Manage Files.

See the XNAT documentation for more information.

Download resource files for a subject§

You can also use Manage Files to download resource files that have been attached to a subject rather than a session.

  • Navigate to the subject report page and then
  • On the Actions menu select Manage Files.

Download data using your own software§

You can use the XNAT API, XNAT Data Client or third party libraries such as pyXNAT to download data from your own software and scripts or the command line. See the XNAT documentation for more information.