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The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging has two fMRI scanners available to researchers. These are a 3T Siemens Trio scanner and a 3T Siemens Allegra scanner. Both are fully equipped with facilities for audio and video projection, collection of subject responses and long range infra red eye tracking. In addition, there are well-developed programs for simultaneous TMS/fMRI and EEG/fMRI surface coils and MR sequences optimised for echoplanar imaging of different brain structures of interest.
The Centre also has 50% of the time available on a 3T Siemens TIM Trio scanner in the Wellcome Trust High Field MR Research Laboratory, UCL.
In 2005 a VSMMedTech Omega 275 Magnetoencephalography (MEG) system was installed in place of the old PET camera and cyclotron. The provision of MEG with its high temporal resolution complements the fMRI systems which have higher spatial resolution but relatively poor temporal resolution. Our system has 275 axial gradiometers and the installation is fully equipped with facilities for visual and auditory presentation, plus long range infrared eye tracking.
There are also several behavioural testing rooms in the building so that testing can be carried out prior to scanning. In addition, a stereotactic TMS facility for single-pulse or repetitive stimulation is available.
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