StaglinCenter:EEG-FMRI:AVTask

This is a template for Agatha's audio-visual experiment (AVTask), an EEG-fMRI experiment.

Prior to Scan Day

• Recruiting
  • Check hair type, notify about clean hair
  • Check vision, contacts
  • Check body size, claustrophobia
• Few Days Ahead
  • Send out screening, consent, demographics, info forms
  • Schedule pump shutdown (contact Edward)
• Night Before
  • Ensure amp is charging + PMU
  • Verify nets and supplies

Pre-Scan

EEG Suite

• Consent, screening, de-metalling
• Task Training, simultaneously prepare EEG/EKG
• Bathroom break
• Apply EEG net and EKG leads

(See: StaglinCenter:EEG and StaglinCenter:EEG:EKG)

• Impedence check outside scanner
• Earplugs
• Apply Spandage bands/shower cap

Console

• Tech Prep

Scanner room

• Subject
• Quality Checks

Scans

TIME: 40 min outside scanner + 1 hr 3 min to 1 hr 13 min in scanner ~ 2 hrs total. AIM for 1 hr 15 min fMRI time slot

• 5 minutes
  • Run localizer
  • Run MBW
• 35 minutes
  • Turn OFF cold head (contact Edward)
  • 6.5 min EPI mini-block scan
  • 6.5 min EPI mini-block scan 2
  • 6.5 min EPI continuous scan 1
  • 6.5 min EPI continuous scan 2
  • 6.5 min REST scan
  • Turn ON cold head (contact Edward)
• 18 minutes
  • 8 min MPRAGE and/or 3 min T2Space

Post-scan

• Pay/credit and debrief subject
• Put away all cabling delicately/neatly
• Clean/disinfect/rinse EEG cap
• Wipe down everything with alcohol (except glasses)
• Straighten out wires in EEG cap before drying net
• Report bad electrodes in log
• Burn/move data
• Compress and copy EEG files
• Copy behavioral files
• Paperwork - consent forms, screenings, etc.