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Core Facilities

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Description: Mock scanner, including equipment to mimic MRI sound. No magnetic field.

Description: Many volunteers and patients are anxious entering a medical (MRI) scanner. The mock scanner allows staff to acclimate subjects, including children, to the enclosed scanner environment in a safe manner.

The mock scanner can also be used for fMRI training.

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Peripheral equipment

  • Personal computer to present movies or functional MRI paradigms to subjects in mock scanner

Template for NIH "Facilities and Other Resources"

This is a template for the Mock Scanner, which can be used in the "Facilities and Other Resources" page of NIH applications. Before using this template, please contact your collaborator to ensure the information is correct and up to date.

 "A mock scaner is available in the Center. Volunteers and patients are commonly anxious entering a medical (MRI) scanner. The mock scanner visually resembles an MRI scanner, but has no magnetic field. It therefore allows staff to acclimate subjects, including children, to the enclosed scanner environment in a safe manner. The mock scanner can also be used for training subjects to perform fMRI paradigms in a safe environment."