[BIC-announce] Update on 3T MRI

[Richard Hoge, Dr.]

Dear all,

I am happy to announce that we can now open the 3T schedule starting Tuesday April 18, until the end of April (Judy will begin taking reservations today).  The system will be ramped down for 4-5 days in early May for extension of the quench pipes in Molson Stadium (exact dates to be announced).  After the quench system work is completed there should be no further interruptions.

Anticipating that each study protocol may require adaptation before resuming systematic data collection, we will allow up to two hours of scanning at the 'pilot' rate (half of normal cost) applicable to every study (taken to mean a specific IRB-approved protocol).  This allowance will be available until the end of July, at which point the usual policies will take effect (pilot scanning rates only available for new protocols).

Note that we are finalizing installation of multiband EPI and MP2RAGE sequences, and these may not be available until the middle of next week.  The majority of 'standard' sequences are now functioning, but you should verify with MR team if you have particular needs.

Please do not hesitate to contact me or any member of the MR team if you have questions.  I will be giving an information session on the upgrade this coming Tuesday (last Monday's talk was rescheduled due to a room conflict).

I would like to thank the MR team and all of our users for their patience and efforts to work around our upgrade schedule, and invite everyone to explore the new capabilities of our 64-channel Prisma 3T.

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<mailto:rick.hoge at mcgill.ca>
514-398-1929


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