[BIC-announce] BIC 3T upgrade, Trio scanning at Douglas

[Rick Hoge]

Dear all,

Just a quick note to let you know we are still on track to commence the Prisma upgrade in the second half of January.  Total down-time is difficult to predict, as there are a number of room and building upgrades required as well.  The current worst-case estimate is for 6 weeks, but please understand that this may change due to unforeseen circumstances.

I have received a number of queries regarding alternate Trio scanning sites and access to the 1.5T system.  Natasha Rajah from Douglas has kindly indicated that they are prepared to help researchers who may need ongoing access to a Trio system (see below).  The Douglas is also seeking to perform the Prisma upgrade, but it will likely be some months after our own.  We will do our best to maximize access to the 1.5T during the upgrade period, but there is likely to be some 1.5T downtime as well (due to the space required for shipping crates, and the need to ramp down both systems for some of the quench work).

I would also like to congratulate our friends at the UNF on their successful upgrade this month and thank them for sharing information and access to the site, which has helped greatly in our own planning.

Sincerely,

Rick

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Rick Hoge, Ph.D.
Program Director for MRI
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute
Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology & Neurosurgery
Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
McGill University
rick.hoge at mcgill.ca
514-398-1929

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> 
> From: Maria Natasha Rajah <mnrajah at gmail.com>
> Subject: Update on Douglas 3T availability
> Date: November 24, 2016 at 12:30:55 PM GMT-5
> To: "Richard Hoge, Mr" <rick.hoge at mcgill.ca>
> Cc: Crystal Lennox <crystal.lennox at douglas.mcgill.ca>
> 
> 
> ​Dear Rick,
> 
> I wanted to let you know that we now  have another part-time MRI technologist trained for running scans 2 weeknight (Wed. & Thurs 4-9pm) and weekends. Her name is Francine Duval and she will be available every-other weekend that Kathy Koen (our other part-time tech) is free, and also on the aforementioned weeknights. We also have another on-call tech who can be scheduled for other weeknights if needed.
> 
> As in the past we request weeknight & weekend bookings be made 2 weeks in advance so we can provide our part-time technologists advanced notice of the scanning schedule, so they can prepare accordingly.  
> 
> For new transferred studies we request a copy of the signed ethics approval letter from the Faculty of Medicien IRB that allows for scanning at the Douglas. If ethics was obtained at MNI, then the MNI committee would need to make amendments to allow scanning at the Douglas or a new ethics submission could be processed at the Douglas (we can help direct PIs if needed). Once we obtain this letter from ethics, we will setup an ProtocolID and let PIs know how to book scans on our system and transfer scans from our server.
> 
> I hope our increased scanner access will help you and other MNI researchers during your centre's transition over the next few months. Please feel free to distribute this information to MNI researchers.
> 
> If you have questions, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Natasha​
> 
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> Maria Natasha Rajah, Ph.D.
> Director, Brain Imaging Centre, Douglas Institute Research Centre
> Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
> Associate Member, Department of Psychology
> McGill University, Montreal, Canada
> http://douglas.research.mcgill.ca/maria-natasha-rajah <http://douglas.research.mcgill.ca/maria-natasha-rajah>
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