fMRI Studies at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

This website was designed to help researchers who perform fMRI studies at the Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) of McGill University. Here you will find information about the BIC facilities, stimulus presentation and subject monitoring equipment, and an introduction on how to analyze your collected fMRI data.

Contents

fMRI Resources Available

MR Imaging Facilities

Stimulus Presentation and Subject Monitoring

Image Transfers from the Scanner

Planning and Executing The Study

Initial Considerations

Booking Scanner Time

Safety Issues

MR Safety Documents - Adobe PDF format

• American College of Radiology White Paper on MR Safety
  
  
• MR Safety by Carolyn Roth, R.T.
  
  
• Safety Precautions in MR Environments by the Emergency Care Research Institute
  

Scanning Procedure

Analyzing the Data

Finding the Transferred Images

Finding the analysis software

Setting up a Working Directory

Preprocessing the Data

Generating an Activation Map

Thresholding the tstat image

Averaging Data from Multiple Subjects or Multiple Sessions

1. Same subject, multiple sessions

2. Multiple subjects

Displaying the Results

Summary of Analysis Steps

Additional Usage Notes and Tips

fMRI Related Frequently Asked Questions

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