A division of the Neuroimaging Research Branch
Director
Contact
Location:
Biomedical Research Center
251 Bayview Blvd
Suite 200, Room 07A711A
Baltimore, MD 21224
Room 07A711A
Phone: 443-740-2650
Fax: 443-740-2753
Email: tross@mail.nih.gov
What the NIC provides
The NIDA IRP Neuroimaging Core offers the following equipment and services
- State of the art MRI technology at 3T including the latest in pulse sequence technology.
- State of the art subject interface devices – including visual stimuli, audio stimuli, thermal stimuli, shocks, response collection, eye tracking and physiological monitoring.
- Mock scanning facilities including most of the same equipment/capabilities as the scanner.
- A quality assurance program that ensures consistent and high-fidelity MRI and fMRI data.
- A trained MRI technologist coverage during prime-time hours.
- Training by technologists in scanning techniques, safety procedures, and protocols.
- Scheduling and a means for exchanging scan time between users.
- Short and long termautomatic archiving of fMRI data.
- Web-based access to imaging data with role-based security.
- State of the art high performance computing environment with a complete suite of modern MRI processing software including AFNI, FSL and SPM.
- Consulting with users on the best fMRI scanning and processing approaches.
- Consulting with users on the best tasks to probe the desired cognitive constructs.
- Consulting with users on data interpretation.
- Preprocessing and processing of resting and task-based studies.
