The 3T system includes:

    • Ultra short 60 cm tunnel length, large FOV up to 50 cm.
    • Dual mode gradient performance
    • 40 mT/m @ 200 mT/m/ms or 80 mT/m @ 100 mT/m/ms.
    • High order shimming capabilities
    • first (x,y,z) and second order (x2-y2,z2,xy,xz,yz).
    • RF coils:
      • dS Head 32 CH
      • dS HeadSpine
      • dS HeadNeckSpine
      • dS Torso
      • dS Flex L and S
      • dS Endo
      • dS Breast 16 CH
      • dS Microscopy
      • Quadrature Transmit/Receive Head coil
      • dS Transmit/Receive integrated body coil


    Auxiliary Equipment:

    • Visual presentation:
      1. Avotec Silent Vision SV-6011 LCD projection visual system, XVGA (1024x768)resolution
      2. InVivo SensaVue fMRI
    • Audio stimulus presentation:
      1. MR Confon audio-control unit and headphones system
      2. Avotec Silent Scan SS3100 system
      3. Philips audio control unit, in-bore speakers and headphones
    • Paradigm presentation software packages:
      1. E-Prime Stimulus Presentation Software
      2. Neurobehavioral Systems Presentaion
      3. Matlab
    • MR-compatible physiologic monitoring:
      1. Biopac system - record physiological signals of Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electromyogram (EMG), respiration and Galvanic Skin Response (GSR)
      2. Invivo Precess (3160 series) MRI patient monitoring system - features include:
        • Wireless ECG-2 channels
        • Wireless SpO2
        • Low-Flow End Tidal CO2
        • Anesthetic Agents
        • Non-invasive blood pressure
        • Cardiac and peripheral gating
        • Pneumatic respiration
      3. Philips devices-Vector-electrocardiogram (VCG); Finger pulse; Respiration pneuomgraph
    • Spectris Solaris EP Injector.
    • MR-compatible long range eye-tracking: Applied Science Laboratories (ASL) - high speed optics, capable of tracking at 120 and 240 Hz.
    • MR-compatible response monitoring devices:
      • LUMItouch fMRI optical response keypad - 5 keys for both left and right-handed keypads
    • Computing resources:
      • Dedicated PCs for stimuli presentation, physiologic monitoring, eye-tracking, image processing and data storage.
    • Mock scanner:
      • The "mock scanner" allows researchers to do "practice runs" in order to acclimatize subjects to the sights and sounds of an MRI.It is especially useful for "training" children,the elderly,and persons with psychiatric disorders to perform an fMRI task and to reduce head motion during scanning.