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Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCLA

Welcome to the Wiki of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCLA (CCN at UCLA). Please find and contribute helpful information for lab usage here.

Main CCN Website: Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Help Contacts

Please review this wiki before contacting CCN staff. The Staglin MR Suite page and Troubleshooting section on this page contain the answers to many frequently-asked questions and issues!

• ccn-safety@mednet.ucla.edu: Email this address with questions about metal and safety clearance.
• ccnsupport@g.ucla.edu: Email this address with all other CCN-related questions and requests.

Staglin Center

• Staglin EEG Suite
  • Includes general information about the EEG suite, nets, and equipment
• Staglin MR Suite
  • Includes general policies, project setup (e.g., adding a new user, DICOM accounts), facilities and equipment in the suite, safety certification, personnel contact information, and common questions about administrative procedures
• Staglin Ultrasound Suite

Frequent Asked Questions

• FAQs
  • Questions about certification, scheduling, metal screening, equipment setup, and troubleshooting.

Classes

• CCN Workshops
• Neuroimaging+ Journal Club
• Principles of Neuroimaging - 2016-2017
• Principles of Neuroimaging - 2015-2016

Computing

• Hoffman2 maintenance and Issues
• Hoffman2
• Dicom
• Psychophysics
• Licensing
• DICOM to NiFTI tools:
  • dcm2niix: A popular tool for converting DICOM images to NIfTI format, compatible with modern DICOM variations. See the Introduction section of the linked NITRC wiki page for additional context (e.g., if you are working with legacy image formats and need the basic dcm2nii function instead).
  • MRIcroGL: A compiled version of the tool with a graphical interface, if you prefer working through a UI and/or need a viewer that can open DICOMs without a separate conversion step.
• DICOM Viewers:
  • Horos: An open-source version of OsiriX.
  • mricron: A lightweight NIfTI image viewer with some useful additional tools (e.g., volume renderings, dcm2nii support).

EEG/fMRI

• EEG (includes EEG-fMRI)
• MR (data collection and processing)

Resources

• New User Checklist
• Software Licenses

• Incidental Finding Report Tool

Troubleshooting

• Common Issues
  • Includes problems with the console, peripherals setup, and scanning failures.
• Eyetracking
• Opto Acoustic Headphones
• BOLD Screen
• Response Devices
• MR-Safe Glasses

Instructions For Admins

• Instructions
• Testing