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Hello Freesurfer Developers,

I want to extract the beta values for an fMRI dataset that I analyzed with 
FSFAST, so that I get one beta map (in the ras space) per condition/regressor. 
The dataset has 5 conditions/regressors specified in the paradigm file and each 
participant has 4 runs. I used the following commands when running FSFAST 
(example for left hemisphere):

mkanalysis-sess -analysis localiser.sm5.lh -surface fsaverage lh -fwhm 5 
-paradigm parbench.par -event-related -spmhrf 0 -refeventdur 4 -polyfit 2 
-nskip 4 -TR 2 -nconditions 5 -per-run -fsd bold

mkcontrast-sess -analysis localiser.sm5.lh -contrast right-vs-left -c 3 -c 5 -a 
2 -a 4

selxavg3-sess -sf sessid -analysis localiser.sm5.lh

>From the output when I navigate to PARTICIPANT_FOLDER/bold/localiser.sm5.lh 
>and examine the beta file with mri_info, I get:
mri_info beta.nii.gz --dim
163842 1 1 33

My understanding is that the first number is the actual beta values for a given 
regressor in ras space and the last number (33) is the different betas. From an 
archived post I found that the first N betas represent the first N conditions. 
Is that per run, or collapsed over runs? Or is it that the first five betas are 
the five conditions for run 1, the second five for run 2, etc until 20? What 
are the other nuisance regressors used to make the rest of the betas then?

Kind Regards,
Deyan








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