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3T Ancillary Equipment

Coils available on the 3T Prisma

  • 32 channel head coil - most frequently used head coil
  • 20 channel head and neck coil - sometimes used on multisite trials
  • 12 channel head Rapid TMS coil
  • 15 channel knee coil
  • 16 channel hand/wrist coil
  • 24 channel spine coil
  • 18 channel Flex coil
  • 4 channel Flex coil

Presentation Computers

Rack of computers and equipment used for presentations 

Computer Screen

  • Presentation Computers:
    • 2x Windows 10 (1803) Dell Precision 5820 rack mounted workstations with Intel Quad Core Processors, GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Graphics Cards
    • Supports E-Prime 2 and E-Prime 3 (Eprime 3 is strongly preferred).
    • One workstation is dual booted with Ubuntu 18.04.
    • 13-inch, mid 2012 Macbook Air, running OSX 10.8.5 to support MIST and MATLAB 2012a running Psychtoolbox 3.0.12. Used for legacy experiments.
    • Connected to Projection system, button response boxes, eyetracker, MRI audio system, triggers from MRI scanner  

Hyperion Projector

Hyperion Projector

Current Designs 932 Button Boxes

932 interface
  • Primary MRI subject response system is the Pyka handpad, which can be used in either left or right hand
  • Simple USB-HID interface, sub 1ms latency
  • FORP Pyka 

FORP Pyka

  • Additional handpads for specific studies
    • Two Button Blue Yellow Response Pad

Two Button Blue Yellow Response Pad

 

MRA fMRI Button Box

MRA fMRI Button Box

Avotec Audio System

Avotec Audio System

  • Avotec Audio System
  • Used to communicate with subjects inside MRI scanner, can also play music, audio stimulus, and record vocal responses.

Biopac

Bio Pac

  • Preferred system for mri-compatible physiological monitoring of respiration rate (chest strap), heart rate (pulse plethysmograph or EKG), and Electrodermal affect (EDA)
  • Dedicated Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon laptop (Windows 10 1803) is used for Biopac acquisition using Acknowledge 4.4

MP150 Unit

Biopac MP150

Siemens Physio Monitors

Siemens Physio Monitors

  • Siemens Bluetooth Physiological Monitors.
    • Four lead ECG.
    • Pulse oximetry.
    • Respiratory waveforms.
  • Physiological data can be monitored in real time and recorded for analysis making modification to Siemens sequences IDEA.
  • Gating of MRI sequences using physiological data is also possible.

Eyelink 1000 Eyetracker

Eyelink 1000 Eyetracker

 

  • MR-compatible eye tracking camera from Eyelink.
  • Long range mount configuration

View additional information from the vendor (PDF).

Magstim TMS

Magstim TMS