Hi Sid, Sorry for such a late reply! Yes the V<i> files are in 4D format. In order to extract the x,y,z components, you can use fslsplit. For example: > fslsplit outputs_V1 components In which case the x,y,z components of V1 will be respectively: components0000.nii.gz components0001.nii.gz components0002.nii.gz Cheers, Saad. On 19 Dec 2008, at 00:25, Siddharth Srivastava wrote: > Hi list, > I am sure this has been discussed before, as it is a very > basic newbie question. I am trying to find out where the 3 > components of the principal directions are stored? The dtifit > command outputs _V{1,2,3}.nii.gz . is each nii.gz file in a 4d > format, having V1x, V1y and V1z components? How do i go about > extracting these components into seperate img files? > Thanks, > sid. Saad Jbabdi Oxford University FMRIB Centre JR Hospital, Headington, OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222545 (fax 717) www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~saad