Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging has two MRI 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 directly adjacent 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 is also a suite of behavioural testing rooms enabling behavioural, neuropsychological and psycho-pharmacological studies to be carried out.