Whole-Head MEG System for Brain Research

用于大脑研究的全头脑磁图系统

• 批准号: 6501299
• 负责人: Martin Reite
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-15 至 2005-07-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6501299
• 关键词: biomedical equipment purchase; brain disorder diagnosis; brain electrical activity; brain imaging /visualization /scanning; magnetoencephalography

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to obtain funds to purchase a whole cortex neuromagnetometer to serve as the primary instrument for magnetoencephalographic recording at the Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory at the Health Sciences campus of the University of Colorado. This will complement a soon-to-be-installed high field magnetic resonance scanner acquired by the Department of Psychiatry to be used exclusively for research and an existing state-of-the-art PET scanner operated by the Department of Radiology. It is conceived that these instruments will form the core of a Colorado and contiguous Rocky Mountain region brain imaging center. The user group in this application includes 9 full professors, 5 associate professors, 6 assistant professors and 1 instructor, spread across the University of Colorado Health Sciences and Boulder campuses, the University of Denver, Colorado State University, and the University of California at Davis. The acquisition of a whole cortex MEG capability will result in the greatly increased subject throughput necessary to support a user group of this size. In addition, the fact that MEG measurements are made simultaneously around the entire head is a necessary condition for the work envisaged in the areas of anomalous functional lateralization and cortical reorganization/plasticity in mental illness, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain-computer interfacing, autism and developmental disabilities, and adolescent substance abuse. The instrument will be located in the Biomagnetic Imaging Lab in the Department of Psychiatry. Instrument management and scheduling will be supervised by an Advisory Committee established for this purpose.

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的目标是获得资金购买一个完整的皮层神经磁强计，作为科罗拉多大学健康科学校区生物磁成像实验室脑磁记录的主要仪器。这将补充精神病学系即将安装的专门用于研究的高场磁共振扫描仪和放射科现有的最先进的PET扫描仪。据设想，这些仪器将形成科罗拉多和邻近的落基山脉地区脑成像中心的核心。此应用程序中的用户组包括9名正教授、5名副教授、6名助理教授和1名讲师，分布在科罗拉多大学健康科学和博尔德校区、丹佛大学、科罗拉多州立大学和加州大学戴维斯分校。整个大脑皮层MEG功能的获得将导致支持这种规模的用户组所需的受试者吞吐量大大增加。此外，在整个头部同时进行MEG测量是在精神疾病、多发性硬化症、癫痫、中风、创伤性脑损伤、脑机接口、自闭症和发育障碍以及青少年药物滥用等领域设想的工作的必要条件。该仪器将放置在精神科的生物磁成像实验室。仪器的管理和调度将由为此目的设立的咨询委员会监督。