Making access to neuroimaging easy: PLannning, Experimental and Analysis SUppport in REsearch (PLEASURE)

2000年，Dieter Vaitl教授创立了本德尔神经成像研究所(Bion)，这是德国第一个在心理学系内使用磁共振成像(MRI)系统的研究所。从一开始，该研究所的目标就是使心理学领域的小组能够使用核磁共振系统来研究心理过程的神经生理学基础。15年后，功能磁共振成像(FMRI)成为多学科神经科学研究领域最突出的研究方法。由于运营成本较高，有必要优化扫描仪的使用，并将Bion组织为一个研究核心单位，在当地和全国都有存在。本应用程序的目的是更专业、更有效和更支持地增加对其用户的支持。这些计划中的进展将吸引来自内部的新研究人员，特别是来自贾斯图斯-利比格-吉森大学外部的研究人员。根据这一目标，Bion将被列入DFG的RIsource门户网站。为此，基础设施资源需要专业化，以使所有用户根据他们对程序愉悦(研究中的规划、实验和分析支持)的需求，获得对心理实验设计的规划、执行和统计分析的最佳支持。愉悦计划包括开发新的服务，这些服务继承了过去15年心理磁共振研究中获得的经验。因为所有的服务和资源都将是透明和可访问的，所以它可以成为其他网站的典型模式。Bion注定要成为心理学领域的DFG MRI核心单元(Gerätezentum)，原因如下。首先，一台现代的3特斯拉磁共振断层扫描仪专门用于研究。扫描时间不会因患者护理而中断。不需要在每次实验后移除实验装置。其次，有大量与心理学研究问题高度相关的最先进的设备(例如，同步fMRI-EEG记录放大器、眼球跟踪设备、视觉、听觉和触觉刺激设备、响应盒单元)。第三，Bion在组织对外合作项目方面经验丰富。第四，Bion酒店位于德国中部，通过法兰克福火车站和法兰克福机场可以方便地到达国内和国际市场。

When the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging (BION) was founded in 2000 by Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl, it was the first institute in Germany to put a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system into operation within a psychological department. From the beginning, it was the objective of the institute to enable groups from the field of psychology to use an MRI system in order to study the neurophysiological basis of psychological processes. Fifteen years later, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the most prominent research method in the multidisciplinary neuroscience research field. Due to the high operating costs, it makes sense to optimize the utilization of the scanner and to organize the BION as a research core-unit with a local but also a nation-wide presence. The aim of the present application is to increase the support more professionally, efficiently and supportively for its users. These planned advancements will attract new researchers from inside as well as, especially, from outside of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. In line with this goal, the BION will be listed in the RIsource portal of the DFG. For this purpose, infrastructural resources need to be professionalized in a way that all users receive optimal support for planning, conducting and statistical analyses of psychological experimental designs depending on their demands by the program PLEASURE (PLanning, Experimental and Analysis SUpport in REsearch). The program PLEASURE includes the development of new services which proceed the experience gained in the last 15 years of psychological MRI research. Because all services and resources will be transparent and accessible, it could be a prototypical model for other sites. The BION is predestined to be a DFG MRI core unit (Gerätezentrum) in psychology for the following reasons. Firstly, a modern 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Tomograph is available exclusively for research. Scan times are not interrupted by patient care. Experimental set-ups do not have to be removed after each experiment. Secondly, a large number of state-of-the-art equipment highly relevant for psychological research questions (e.g., simultaneous fMRI-EEG recording amplifier, eye-tracking equipment, visual, acoustic and tactile stimulation devices, response box units) is available. Thirdly, the BION is highly experienced in organizing external cooperation projects. Fourthly, the BION is located in the middle of Germany; with excellent national and international accessibility via Frankfurt train station and Frankfurt airport.