Hello all,
As part of the continuous review of our participant safety guidelines
there has been an amendment to the YNiC policy on scanning volunteers.
With immediate effect any participant with fixed dental braces will not
be scanned as part of an experiment. Although we have had no incidents
locally, there is the possibility of significant heating of dental
braces during an MRI scan. This is a small but unnecessary risk, and so
we have excluded this group from any future experimental scanning.
Our participant information and scan consent/safety questionnaire forms
have been updated accordingly and you should make sure you have the most
up to date versions of these forms when recruiting participants. The
current versions of all YNiC forms should always be available at:
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/forms
and as ever, please let us know of any errors/omissions.
Thanks,
Sam
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Sam Johnson
Science Manager, York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk