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Facilities -
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center: |
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Magnets:
The MRI department is equipped with two whole
body magnets. The first is a 1.5 Tesla GE echo
speed, Signa Horizon LX 8.3M5 system. This system
is used mainly for clinical examination, and
is partly dedicated to research. The second
is a 3 Tesla magnet, GE VH/I currently being
installed. This system will be dedicated to
research.
Equipment:
The scanner room of the 1.5 T system is fully
equipped for clinical population needs, including
an anesthesiology machine (Markomed MRI).
Stimulation equipment:
Visual stimulation - The stimuli sequences
are generated on PC and projected via an LCD
projector (EPSON MP 7200) onto a translucent
tangent screen located on the head coil in front
of the subject's eyes.
Auditory stimulation - The stimuli sequences
are generated on PC or a regular CD player and
are played via headphones.
Response box - tracks subjects' responses
during tests. All equipment is MR compatible.
Computational resources:
Our site is equipped with a GE workstation -
ADW3.1 - for data analysis and registration
of the MRI data with CT images. Three SGI O2
computers are available for off-line processing
of the functional data, and for programming
new sequences for the magnet. In the lab - an
additional 15 high-speed PC's and a Windows
2000 server are available for research. Functional
data analysis is processed using 'BrainVoyager'
and 'SPM' software packages, while 'Matlab'
software is used for off-line processing of
data obtained from advance techniques. |
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