Instrument/Equipment Core/Facility: BrainWorks

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Roeland Hancock

Director, BrainWorks
Building:

100 College St

About the instrument

MRI reveals the structure and function of the brain at high spatial resolution. The MRI suite is equipped with a full range of stimulus delivery and response devices and a mock scanner for pretraining and acclimation to the MRI environment.

Available to Yale researchers only

Specifications

Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma 3T scanner

  • 3-Tesla magnetic field
  • 20-channel, 32-channel, and 64-channel head and head/neck coils
  • Maximum amplitude of 80 mT/m @ a slew rate of 200 T/m/s
  • Sequences for rapid, high-resolution functional, structural, diffusion weighted, susceptibility weighted, and quantitative imaging

Stimulus and response peripherals

  • OptoAcoustics OptoActive III adult and newborn headset with active noise cancellation for high-fidelity audio delivery at high frequencies
  • OptoAcoustics fiber optic microphone with active noise cancellation
  • PST Hyperion projector system, 1080p@60 Hz
  • SR Research EyeLink 1000+ eye tracker
  • BIOPAC MP160 with EDA module
  • A range of fiber optic response boxes

Mock scanner

  • PST Vera MRI simulator
  • Realistic 60 cm bore and 32-channel head coil
  • Real-time head movement measurement
  • Simulates the acoustic environment of the MRI
  • Screen and trainer response boxes