Hello all,
As part of the revamped Thursday afternoon sessions, at 4pm tomorrow
there will be project presentations from people planning studies at YNiC.
The following Thursday, the 15th, Andre will be demonstrating some of
the features of his new visualisation tool.
The intention of these sessions is to encourage dialog so that the whole
YNiC user community, including YNiC staff, can share the benefits of
their experiences and expertise. As such these sessions will take a
variety of forms; journal clubs, project presentations, progress
reports, seminars, training and so on. In the near future there will be
"friendly" requests for investigators involved in projects to prepare
informal progress reports, but in the mean time please do come along and
partake of some wine and snacks and see what other people are planning.
Thanks
Sam
Hi,
As some of you will know, due to an interesting issue [0] caused by GE
installing an MRI scanner update, we have been having some problems with
transferring and processing MRI data recently. Because GE (despite
having admitted that this is their fault) are unable to fix this in a
timely manner, we've now managed to work around it in house and have
processed the backlog of data.
Everything up until last week has now been processed and uploaded and
last weeks' scans will be processed by the end of today.
Apologies for the delay but this came out of nowhere and even diagnosing
the problem took quite a bit of time.
If anybody thinks that scans they have performed since the start of the
year have not been processed, can you please send an email to
mri-support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk with details and we'll look into it.
Cheers,
Mark
[0] For Those Who Care About Technical Details
The executive summary is that they've changed the two values which
represent the Minimum (0028,0108) and Maximum (0028,0109) pixel values
in the image from 16 bit signed to 16 bit unsigned. The data which is
exported is still 16 bit signed and so this change makes absolutely no
sense whatsoever. Quite a bit of DICOM code I've looked at will cope
with either US or SS for these values but expects them to be consistent
with the actual data (which makes sense, if you're expressing a minimum
or maximum, it should be done using the same data type as the data).
A full dissection of the problem follows:
Old DICOM Image (selected tags only):
(0028,0103) US 1 # 2, 1 PixelRepresentation
(0028,0106) SS 0 # 2, 1 SmallestImagePixelValue
(0028,0107) SS 275 # 2, 1 LargestImagePixelValue
New DICOM Image (selected tags only):
(0028,0103) US 1 # 2, 1 PixelRepresentation
(0028,0106) US 0 # 2, 1 SmallestImagePixelValue
(0028,0107) US 2211 # 2, 1 LargestImagePixelValue
As you can se from the second column, the two bottom tags have changed
their Value Representation from SS (Signed Short) to US (Unsigned Short).
I've included the tag (0028,0103) because it explains how the actual
pixel data is to be interpreted. MR is fixed at 16 bits which leaves
two options: signed (2's complement) and unsigned.
To quote from the DICOM Standard:
Pixel Representation (0028, 0103): Data representation of the pixel
samples. Each sample shall have the same pixel representation.
Enumerated values:
0000H = unsigned integer
0001H = 2's complement
So, the data is still written as signed, whilst the min and max values
are written as unsigned. This is, at least in spirit if not letter, a violation
of the DICOM standard.
Note that although I state that according to the DICOM spec, MR is fixed at
16 bits, the interpretation of those 16 bits isn't fixed. See the tags
BitsStored, BitsAllocated and HighBit if you're interested. (In practice,
this is usually fixed for MR at 16, 16 and 15 respectively).
The fix is to read the value out of the file and hack the relevant VRs back
to being a signed integer instead of an unsigned one. The interesting
thing is that images processed with Clariview (e.g. the YNiC Structurals
which have FL_E in them) still use the signed value. So not only are GE
wrong, they're inconsistently wrong too.
--
Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Dear all,
Dr Pulvermuller will be giving a talk on Thursday the 1st of March
at 4PM at YNic (tomorrow).
Here goes his abstract
Early time course of psycholinguistic information access in the brain
as revealed by neurophysiological imaging (EEG and MEG)
Friedemann Pulvermüller, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
Cambridge, UK, friedemann.pulvermuller(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
The main stream view in neurophysiological psycholinguistics has been
that relatively late components of the brain response with latencies
of 300-500 ms reflect higher stages of language processing, such as
lexical access, semantic processing and context integration. This
view is in contrast with data from psycholinguistics indicating very
early psycholinguistic information access. Why, then, would ERP
studies reveal late neurophysiological effects, but not the early
ones psycholinguistic behavioral work would suggest? As language
stimuli are very variable physically and psycholinguistically, the
early components of the linguistic brain response, which are both
focal and short-lived, may fall victim to the neurophysiological
reflection of such stimulus variance [1]. Studies keeping stimulus
variance to a minimum [2-3] or using new paradigms and analysis
techniques [4-5] reported early (<250 ms) near-simultaneous effects
of lexical and semantic processing in word recognition. The talk will
discuss these effects, using neurophysiological data to judge
linguistic models of the time course of psycholinguistic information
access. A neurobiological model will be used to account for both the
near-simultaneity of psycholinguistic information access as well as
the minimal time delays observed. Distributed cell assemblies with
specific cortical topographies binding information about word form
and meaning may be the basis of near-synchrony and precise spatio-
temporal patterning [5-7].
[1] Pulvermüller, F. (1999). Words in the brain's language.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 253-336.
[2] Pulvermüller, F., Lutzenberger, W., et al. (1995).
Electrocortical distinction of vocabulary types.
Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 94, 357-370.
[3] Pulvermüller, F., Assadollahi, R., & Elbert, T. (2001).
Neuromagnetic evidence for early semantic access in word recognition.
European Journal of Neuroscience, 13(1), 201-205.
[4] Hauk, O., Davis, M. H., Ford, M., Pulvermüller, F., & Marslen-
Wilson, W. (2006). The time course of visual word-recognition as
revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. Neuroimage, in
press.
[5] Pulvermüller, F. (2005). Brain mechanisms linking language and
action. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(7), 576-582.
[6] Pulvermüller, F. (2006). Word processing in the brain as revealed
by neurophysiological imaging using EEG and MEG. In G. Gaskell (Ed.),
Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. in press). Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
[7] Pulvermüller, F., & Shtyrov, Y. (2006). Language outside the
focus of attention: the mismatch negativity as a tool for studying
higher cognitive processes. Progress in Neurobiology, 79, 49-71.
Silvia Gennari
Department of Psychology
University of York
Heslington, York
YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
I am looking for 6 people to volunteer for MRI, on the 6th (3 people)
and (3 people) 9th of March, between 12 and 2pm.
Please let me know if our available and if you are already registered on
the data base.
Thank you
* Participants are paid £5.
The YNiC open plan area will be closing at 5pm today as we need to
perform some IT maintenance which cannot be done with users present.
We will open again as normal tomorrow (Friday) morning.
Apologies for the short notice.
Mark
--
Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Dear all,
There will be a talk by Friedemann Pulvermüller (MRC-CBU) on
Thursday the 1st of March at 4PM at the YNic. Dr. Pulvermüller will
be teaching Advanced Neuroimaging to the master students (CNS)
earlier in the day and has kindly agreed to give a second talk for a
more general audience.
Dr. Pulvermüller works in cognitive neuroscience of language and has
written extensively on the topic. He has used fMRI, TMS and MEG
techniques to ask question about both time course and localization of
brain activity during language processing. He has also investigated
neuropsychological issues such as aphasia.
Here is a link to his website
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/people-pages.php?id=105
Everybody is welcome.
Silvia
Silvia Gennari
Department of Psychology
University of York
Heslington, York
YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
Apologies to anyone who this may not concern.
We have had another complaint from the receptionist of the Biocentre who
is passing on the other tenants views.
We are being asked not to use the kitchen facilities to socialise and
there should be no more than two people in there at any one time.
The other tenants are especially upset as the kettle has been broken and
that we are using their coffee amongst other things.
As you can imagine this has caused problems as the biocentre rely on
the receptionist for catering for meetings. We rely on the goodwill of
the receptionists in the Biocentre and problems of this kind could
damage the long term benefits we get from working with them.
Please can I ask users not to use the kitchen next to reception. There
is a kitchen along the corridor in the glassed roof area. DO NOT use
other people's milk/coffee/food/cutlery/bowls etc
YNiC will put a kettle in the meeting room in the MRI corridor.
While we are on the subject I would also like to add that YNIC has
visits regularly and the standards of the open plan have started to drop
dramatically again, I and other members of the team do not have time to
clean up after users on a morning.
The cleaners are not here to tidy up coffee cups etc, or rearrange
furniture. Please leave the open plan area and desks as you find them
ready for the next person.
If you have cups with liquid still in you can empty this in the sink in
MRI corridor. Please flush the fluids away after you.
Thank you
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear all,
Sorry if you receive this message twice.
Masters students in Cognitive Neuroscience will be giving
presentations at YNic tomorrow and next Thursday at 4PM. They will
present the research they are planning to conduct during the summer.
Everyone is welcome.
The schedule is as follows
Thursday February 15th
4PM - Is it a face or a house? Using binocular rivalry to
investigate visual awareness (supervisor: Tim Andrews).
Pippa Baird
Jenny Cox
4.15PM - Do specialized visual areas
really exist in the human ventral stream? (supervisors: Tim Andrews and
Tom Hartley)
Alex Clarke
Phil Pell
4.30PM - Representing actions through language (supervisor: Gennari)
Claire Moody
(Veronica) Tzu-Hui Chuang
Thursday - February 22nd.
4PM - What is the difference between familiar and unfamiliar face
perception? (Tim Andrews)
Jodie Davies
Spyroula Spyrou
4.15PM - Hemispheres and handwriting: an MEG project (Andy Ellis)
Nuria Donamayor Alonso
4.30 PM - Localisation of auditory
function with fMRI and MEG (Quentin Summerfield)
Emma Knowles
Sam Matthias
4.45PM -Brain functional connectivity from MEG data (Gary Green)
Dave Cole
Chris Neale
John Griffiths
Lisa Brindley
Alana James
Silvia Gennari
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
Hi Silvia,
Could you send an email to ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to let them know
about the MSc sessions on the following Thursdays.
Cheers,
Tim
Silvia Gennari wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> This is just a remainder that the CNS master students' project
> presentations is starting this week at YNic on Thursday at 4PM. Here
> is a provisional list of presenters for this and next week, please let
> me know if there is any problem with the arrangements.
>
>
> Thursday February 15th
>
>
> 4PM - Is it a face or a house? Using binocular rivalry to
> investigate visual awareness (supervisor: Tim Andrews).
> Pippa Baird
> Jenny Cox
>
> 4.15PM - Do specialized visual areas really exist in the human
> ventral stream? (supervisors: Tim Andrews and Tom Hartley)
> Alex Clarke
> Phil Pell
>
>
> 4.30PM - Representing actions through language (supervisor: Gennari)
> Claire Moody
> (Veronica) Tzu-Hui Chuang
>
>
>
> Thursday - February 22nd.
>
>
>
> 4PM - What is the difference between familiar and unfamiliar face
> perception? (Tim Andrews)
> Jodie Davies
> Spyroula Spyrou
>
>
> 4.15PM - Hemispheres and handwriting: an MEG project (Andy Ellis)
> Nuria Donamayor Alonso
>
>
> 4.30 PM - Localisation of auditory function with fMRI and MEG
> (Quentin Summerfield)
> Emma Knowles
> Sam Matthias
>
>
> 4.45PM -Brain functional connectivity from MEG data (Gary Green)
> Dave Cole
> Chris Neale
> John Griffiths
> Lisa Brindley
> Alana James
>
>
> Hope to see you all there.
>
>
> Silvia
>
> Silvia Gennari
>
> Department of Psychology
>
> University of York
>
> Heslington, York
>
> YO10 5DD
>
> United Kingdom
>
>
>
>
>
--
Dr Tim Andrews
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK
Tel: 44-1904-434356
Fax: 44-1904-433181
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/admissions/cns/
A new web page has been added to ynic's user resource section
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/user-resources/conferences-and-abstract-deadlin…
It tells you dates of conference and submission times. Entries are
automatically deleted once the conference has passed.
If you know of any neuroimaging conferences that should be added please
send an email to
rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear Users
On Thursday the 25th of January, 2007, YNiC will be closed for the day.
This is so that the YNiC team can review and plan their strategy for the
year.
We apologise for any inconvenience that this might cause.
Later in the year there will be an opportunity for all users to contribute
to discussions of the future plans of YNiC.
--
Gary Green
Director
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
Dear All,
The British Neuroscience Association are holding a meeting in Harrogate
in April. This might be a nice opportunity to present recent results
from the YNiC. The deadline for abstract submission is January 31.
Tim
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: BNA National Meeting 2007 - Abstract deadline approaching!
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:12:33 -0000
From: Allen, Yvonne <Y.Allen(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Reply-To: bnanews <BNANEWS(a)liverpool.ac.uk>
To: BNANEWS(a)liverpool.ac.uk
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BNA News****BNA News****BNA News
19th National Meeting, 1st - 4th April, 2007, Harrogate, North
Yorkshire, in association with Neuroscience Ireland
Registration and abstract submission is now well underway for the 19th
NATIONAL MEETING of the BNA, to be held in association with Neuroscience
Ireland this year. Deadline for early registration fee and abstract
submission is MIDNIGHT, 31st JANUARY. Don't leave it too late! Only
two weeks to go!!
There will be:
*Nine plenary lectures
*Twenty symposia
*50 themed poster sessions
*Full exhibition with special demonstrations
*Welcome Reception
*Conference banquet and Party
*Café-bar discussions on the public awareness of brain science, and art
in neuroscience
*Teaching of Neuroscience workshop
*Wellcome Trust workshops on careers and grant-holding; Science Careers
networking lunch for postgraduate students and post-docs
In short, there will be something for everyone at this important event
in the BNA calendar. So please, please support the BNA! Registration
fees start at only £90 for students and there are generous bursaries
available for student BNA members and newly qualified post-docs.
Non-members are welcome too, so please circulate this message as widely
as possible. Consult the website for all the latest updates and
additions to the scientific programme and special events - just follow
the link from our homepage (www.bna.org.uk <http://www.bna.org.uk/>).
Harrogate is a lively town, full of shops, cafes, bars and restaurants,
surrounded by spectacular Yorkshire countryside and close to the cities
of York and Leeds. So come and spend a few days Easter break in this
truly wonderful location. See you in Harrogate!
****************************
Dr Yvonne Allen Samantha Potts
BNA Executive Secretary Administrator
--
Dr Tim Andrews
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK
Tel: 44-1904-434356
Fax: 44-1904-433181
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/admissions/cns/
Hi all,
Does anyone have any experience of using freesurfer at YNiC?
Is it supported?
Is it possible to run freesurfer on the cluster?
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki
Best wishes,
Tom Hartley
Dear All,
YNiC has introduced an on-line system for managing the submission and
review of applications to the YNiC Research Ethics Committee. To use
the system effectively, it is important that applicants please read the
document entitled 'Guidance on preparing a submission to the YNiC REC'
which can be downloaded from the YNiC web site at:
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/application/so-you-want-to-use-the-…
That guidance explains what documents constitute an ethics application.
It will be important that you submit the correct documents to the
on-line system, if your application is to be processed efficiently.
With thanks best wishes,
Gary Green, Director YNiC
Quentin Summerfield, Chair YNiC REC
The following link contains important information for users.
A Thursday journal club will consider these issues in detail, in late
January.
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v10/n1/full/nn0107-1.html
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
A reminder that there is an extra seminar on Monday at 12.30 in
Psychology A202 (the Venables Room)
Prof Tatjana Nazir (Lyon) 'Exploring the cortical networks
underlying (visual) word recognition'.
All welcome
Andy
--
Professor Andy Ellis
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK
Tel. +44 (0)1904 433140
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/awe1.html
This Friday we have a group of visitors attending YNiC some time between
11 and noon. The visit is extremely important for us and the University.
When the Open Plan area is busy there is an exciting atmosphere and it
would be good to communicate that to the visitors even if they are only
present for a few minutes. If you happened to be planning to use the
YNiC facilities this week then please consider doing so on Friday
morning as it would help us enormously.
Thank you
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear All,
I received three responses (please shout if I have ommitted any) to my
enquiry concerning projects (past, present and future) that might assist
us all in bench testing MEG analysis. The project details are described
below and I am hopeful that each of them will inform us on how best to use
the MEG tools that have been developed at YNiC. The projects are also at
different stages of development and this is likely to allow at least some
work to be done in series rather than us spread ourselves too thinly
across three parallel projects. I plan to convene some meetings with each
project team and YNiC staff to establish how to move forward on each
project. These meetings will take the same form as the brain storming
sessions that we are now running for project teams. The first of these
was run recently and by all accounts was a successful and enjoyable
activity. If you could let me know when (usually a Wednesday afternoon
from 4pm) you are available to meet, that would be very helpful.
Many thanks for responding.
Tony
Project: P1010
Title: Seeing the neural basis of the left hemisphere advantage for visual
word recognition.
Investigators: Ellis and Barca.
SLO: Simpson
Synopsis: MEG study with good data acquired from at least 11
participants. Left vs right visual field comparison for silent reading of
words, scrambled words.
Status: Data acquired and partially analysed.
Project: P1039
Title: Investigating the magnitude and distance effects in number
comparison with MEG.
Investigators: Goebel.
SLO: Simpson
Synopsis: Aim to acquire data from circa 16 participants during number
comparisons (and control trials).
Status: Acquiring, but ethics and science approval.
Project: P1051
Title: Comparing fMRI and MEG; object category selectivity in the visual
cortex.
Investigators: Lee, Young, Andrews & Johnson.
SLO: Johnson
Synopsis: 16 participants viewing faces and places.
Status: Data not yet acquired, ethics and science applied for.
Dear all,
For those who have registered, the timetable for the Beamforming
training day tomorrow is:
--------------
9:15 - 10:00 Review of MEG (Gary Green)
10:10 - 10:50 Introduction to Beamforming (Gary Green)
11:00 - 1:00 Beamforming: A step-by-step guide and workshop (Will Woods)
--------------
1:30 - 2:20 Pitfalls and interpretation issues in MEG (Michael Simpson)
2:30 - 3:30 Virtual Electrodes: A step-by-step guide and workshop (Will
Woods)
3:30 - 4:30 MEG Statistics: Group and Single Subject statistics (Gary Green)
--------------
Please try to arrive for 9am so that everyone can get a coffee and be
seated for a prompt 9.15am start. Also, please bring your own lunch. It
will help us to keep to the tight schedule if people don't need to go to
the shops at lunchtime to buy food.
Thanks
Michael
--
Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear All,
The British Neuroscience Association runs a Neuroscience North East
conference each year . This year it will be held in Durham on 14/15
December. The aim of this conference is to give younger neuroscientists
(PhD students, postdocs) an opportunity to present their work. If you
are interested in presenting a talk or a poster OR fancy a couple of
days in Durham, please let me know asap and I will put you in contact
with the conference organizers. I have been told that there is free
food and drink (incl. beer) and cheap accommodation.
Best wishes,
Tim
--
Dr Tim Andrews
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK
Tel: 44-1904-434356
Fax: 44-1904-433181
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/admissions/cns/
Dear YNiC users
A new page (not yet published) will be available on the YNiC website
where researchers can advertise for participants. If you would like to
advertise your study on the YNiC "Volunteers" page, please provide the
following information to either me or your SLO:
1) The project title and a contact name
2) The email address of the contact
3) A few sentences describing your project
4) How long the experiment will take
5) Participant payment
There will also be a link to the YNiC "Volunteers" page from the
psychology department website.
Furthermore, if you have specific requirements of participants (e.g.
right-handed, normal vision), we can query the pool of volunteers in the
YNiC database to produce a list of suitable volunteers for your study. I
will send an email to all the volunteers on the list on the behalf of
the user. Users will need to provide details of their study and a
contact email so that interested volunteers can contact them directly.
If you have any questions about this, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Rebecca
--
************************************************************************
Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear All,
I'm pleased to announced that we're about to start a new study which will
look at the relationship between the size of the hippocampus and performance
on a topographical memory task.
The aim is to make use of MRI data collected in connection with previous and
ongoing studies. We are looking to make contact with potential participants
(healthy adults, aged 18-50) who have already had an MRI scan at YNiC or who
will have one over the next 6-9 months. An additional constraint is that
they should be available to take part in a brief (15-20 minute)
psychological test later in the year.
If you have already or are about to conduct a study with suitable
participants and are willing to help, we would like to hear from you so that
we can begin the process of contacting subjects and identifying studies in
which they have participated. We aim to make this as easy for you and the
potential participants as possible. There is a also a panel of volunteers
who have agreed to be approached regarding future studies at YNiC, and we
intend to approach these via the Director. To respond, please use the link
below (please be careful not to "reply to all"!):
mailto:t.hartley@psychology.york.ac.uk;rch504@york.ac.uk?subject=hvt:I-have-
a-study
You may yourself have had a scan and be interested in participating - if so,
please contact us, and we can then begin the process of tracking down your
scan and obtaining permission to analyze the data. There is no need to make
a firm commitment at this stage, and as with all such studies, you would be
free to withdraw at any time. If this fits you, please use the following
link to reply to this message:
mailto:t.hartley@psychology.york.ac.uk;rch504@york.ac.uk?subject=hvt:I-have-
a-study
Further information for potential participants is available at:
http://www.neuroindex.org/images/b/bf/HVT_Information_revised.pdf
Best wishes,
Tom Hartley
Rachel Harlow
===================================
Dr Tom Hartley
Dept. of Psychology
t.hartley(a)psychology.york.ac.uk
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~th512
ext 2903
Dear YNiC Users
We would like to get your feedback on when would be the most convenient
time to run training sessions.
Please can you take a few minutes to tick some boxes and make comments
on the online form at
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/user-resources/training-survey
We will collate the information in two weeks time
thanks
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear ynic-users
It is good to see that many of you are now using the online booking form
for MEG and MRI.
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/user-resources/booking
We hope the new procedure is easier than the old method of using email
and/or phone.
There is a small problem though which we would like to bring to your
attention. When you use the online form, you should still wait for
confirmation from Claire Fox by email that your session has been booked.
This is because several people could, in theory, attempt to book the
same hour.
Another problem is that some people are attempting to book a session at
night for the next day. This is not practical as we need to ensure that
an operator is available, that the scanners are available and that all
stimulus delivery issues, ethics, and consent are all in place.
Please can we ask users to try and book their sessions before the
Thursday of the week before they wish to use the scanners.
Of course we do not want the scanners to be idle and the resource to be
wasted, so, if you want to make a last minute booking and all the
practical aspects of scanning are in place, then please ring Claire to
discuss the possibility of using the scanners. The key thing then will
be availability of operators.
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954