3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner (3T MRI Scanner)

申请新的3特斯拉核磁共振扫描仪是精神健康校园(CMH)建立的一部分，该校园位于Tübingen大学诊所(UKT)的山谷医学院(“Klinikum Tal”)。CMH的目的是在临床和神经科学层面上建立精神健康领域所有部门之间的紧密联系。新的CMH研究扫描仪将提供山谷医学院(Klinikum Tal)临床研究成像能力的必要扩展，而质量标准和安全法规将由成像科学中心(ISC)提供。新的扫描仪将在结构上分配给精神病学系，并与放射科和ISC合作管理。在CMH安装新的MRI扫描仪的主要目标是：i)使CMH(医学院和英国昆士兰大学)以及邻近的临床心理学和生物心理学系(科学系)能够进行计划中的临床成像研究；ii)根据现有系的内部发展补偿现有的新扫描时间要求；iii)回应由于任命新教授(如神经技术和计算精神病学，Tobias Kaufmann)而出现的扫描设施的要求。因此，迫切需要在CMH及时建立一家专门从事研究的磁共振扫描设施。CMH研究环境的核心优势是集中了大量以MR为中心的专业知识，涉及磁共振成像技术应用的不同方面，如社会认知(见中心倡议1：Birgit Derntl，Thomas ethofer，Benjamin Kreifelts，Marina Pavlova，Peter Dayan)，脑刺激(见中心倡议2：Christian Plewnia，Surjo Soekadar，Alireza Gharabaghi，Ulf Ziemann/Christoph Zrenner)，营养和大脑(见中心倡议3：Hubert Preissl，Jennifer Svaldi，Katrin Giel，Manfred Hallschmidt，Nils Kroemer)，精神障碍(见中心4：Andreas Fallgatter，Ann-Christin Ehlis，Tobias Renner，Dirk Wildrugber)，认知机制(见中心计划5：Steffen Gais，Andreas Bartels，Axel Lindner，Karsten Rauss，Kou Murayama)和痴呆症研究(见中心计划6：Christoph Laske，Gerhard Eschweler，Tobias Lindg)。这种物理集中将进一步为DFG资助的新的合作研究中心和多中心参与提供大规模的患者测量。这项建议的申请者已成功申请参加由BMBF资助的9个精神病学、心理治疗和心理学研究网络中的6个，提供必要的成像设施和适当的扫描仪是这些正在进行的和随后的长期成像倡议的先决条件。

This application for a new 3 Tesla MRI scanner is part of the establishment of a Campus for Mental Health (CMH) located at the Valley Medical Campus (“Klinikum Tal”) of the University Clinic Tübingen (UKT). The aim of the CMH is to create tight interconnections both at clinical and neuroscientific level between all departments working in the field of mental health.The new CMH research scanner will provide the necessary expansion of clinical research imaging capacities at the Valley Medical Campus (“Klinikum Tal”), while quality standards and safety regulations will be provided by the Imaging Science Centre (ISC). The new scanner will be structurally assigned to the Department of Psychiatry and managed in cooperation with the Department of Radiology and the ISC. The major goals of the installation of a new MRI scanner at the CMH is to i) enable the planned clinical imaging research at the CMH (Medical Faculty and UKT) and the adjacent Departments of Clinical Psychology and Biological Psychology (Faculty of Sciences), ii) compensate for existing new scan time requirements based on internal development of existing departments and iii) respond to the requests for scanning facilities emerging due to appointment of new professors (e.g. Neurotechnology and Computational Psychiatry, Tobias Kaufmann). Thus, timely establishment of one research dedicated MR scanning facility at the CMH is strongly needed. A central strength of the CMH research environment is the concentration of a critical mass of MR-centered expertise on different aspects of application of MR imaging techniques, such as Social Cognition (see Center Initiative 1: Birgit Derntl, Thomas Ethofer, Benjamin Kreifelts, Marina Pavlova, Peter Dayan), Brain stimulation (see Center Initiative 2: Christian Plewnia, Surjo Soekadar, Alireza Gharabaghi, Ulf Ziemann/Christoph Zrenner), Nutrition and the Brain (see Center Initiative 3: Hubert Preissl, Jennifer Svaldi, Katrin Giel, Manfred Hallschmidt, Nils Kroemer), Developmental Disorders (see Center Initiative 4: Andreas Fallgatter, Ann-Christin Ehlis, Tobias Renner, Dirk Wildgruber), Mechanisms of Cognition (see Center Initiative 5: Steffen Gais, Andreas Bartels, Axel Lindner, Karsten Rauss, Kou Murayama) and dementia research (see Center Initiative 6: Christoph Laske, Gerhard Eschweiler, Tobias Lindig).This physical concentration shall further enable large-scale patient measurements for new local DFG funded collaborative research centers and multicenter participations. Applicants of this proposal have successfully applied to participate in 6 of 9 BMBF-funded research networks in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychology and provision of necessary imaging facilities with suitable scanners is a prerequisite for these ongoing and the subsequent long term imaging initiatives.