Ah, I see. Thank you both for the swift and thorough answer to my question! 

Kelli

> On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:06 PM, Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> wrote:
> 
> The -cifti-convert command is intended as a hack to squeeze cifti data into 
> formats that aren't designed for it, don't read too much significance into 
> the details.  The first and second dimensions in this nifti file (which I 
> have referred to as "fake" nifti, because it isn't a sane volume file, and 
> doesn't contain information about what it really is) are a workaround for the 
> fact that nifti-1 can only support dimensions of length 32,767 maximum.  
> Cifti files in our standard space have a dimension of 91,282.  32,767 x 3 is 
> chosen because it is larger than 91,282, such that we can fit all the indices 
> into it.
> 
> As Matt said, for using MRI-derived cifti files in matlab, we recommend using 
> the "ciftiopen" and related scripts in option B here:
> 
> https://wiki.humanconnectome.org/display/PublicData/HCP+Users+FAQ#HCPUsersFAQ-2.HowdoyougetCIFTIfilesintoMATLAB?
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:02 PM, Glasser, Matthew <glass...@wustl.edu> wrote:
> 
> You can use our CIFTI Matlab tools to read the matrix into matlab (2B on
> this website):
> 
> https://wiki.humanconnectome.org/display/PublicData/HCP+Users+FAQ
> 
> It will be 91282 Grayordinates X 1200 time points.  For more information
> on the CIFTI file format and Grayordinates, please see this publication:
> 
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811913005053
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Matt.
> 
> On 3/23/17, 12:32 PM, "hcp-users-boun...@humanconnectome.org on behalf of
> Cannon, Kelli E" <hcp-users-boun...@humanconnectome.org on behalf of
> kecan...@uab.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am wanting to work with the S1200 fix-denoised resting-state data in
>> MATLAB. I am able to get the data into matlab, but have not been able to
>> figure out exactly what the
>> rfMRI_REST1_RL_Atlas_MSMAll_hp2000_clean.dtseries.nii file, for example,
>> contains. When I dump the data into nifti format using wb_command
>> -cifti-convert, the nifti file contains a 32,767 x 3 x 1 x 1200 matrix.
>> I¹m sure that the first dimension corresponds to the grayoordinates and
>> that the fourth dimension corresponds to the time points, but would like
>> to know what the second dimension corresponds to.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Kelli Cannon
>> Graduate Student
>> UAB Department of Vision Science
>> kecan...@uab.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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