MRI: Acquisition of a 3T SIEMENS PRISMA at RUBIC: The Evolution to a Regional Center

该奖项为罗格斯大学纽瓦克分校提供了最先进的MRI扫描仪，如西门子PRISMA磁共振成像仪。该模型具有100毫秒的超快采集时间和（0.1mm）空间分辨率的清晰细节。这些特征与MRI的许多其他最新创新相结合，将为大脑研究提供新的研究和基础突破，影响精神健康疾病（如精神分裂症、抑郁症、自闭症）的表征和基本理解，并进一步加深对人类大脑区域连接的更普遍理解。RUBIC是罗格斯大学所有校区的核心研究中心，也是整个东北走廊的机构和研究小组的区域资源。特定的研究领域立即得到PRISMA的支持，其他核心领域得到加强。这些研究领域包括：(1)人类连接组研究和网络神经科学；(2)决策科学和奖励学习(3)。阿尔茨海默病的基础研究和各种类型痴呆症的特征。RUBIC在任何给定的研究周期中都有25-30名PI研究人员，并且在罗格斯大学和附近的机构中有一个活跃的研究人员社区。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides a state of the art MRI scanners, such as the SIEMENS PRISMA magnetic resonance imager to the Rutgers University Newark. This model has ultra-fast collection times in 100s of milliseconds and sharp detail in (0.1mm) spatial resolution. The combination of these features and many other recent innovations in MRI will provide for novel research and fundamental breakthroughs in brain research, impacting on the characterization and basic understanding of mental health disease (e.g. Schziophrenia, Depression, Autism) as well as furthering more general understanding of areal connectivity within the human brain.RUBIC is a core research center for all Rutgers campuses and a regional resource for institutions and research groups throughout the northeast corridor. Specific areas of research are immediately enabled by the PRISMA and other core areas are strengthened. These research areas include (1) Human connectome research and network neuroscience, (2) Decision science and reward learning (3). Basic research on Alzheimer's and characterization of various types of dementia. RUBIC has 25-30 PI researchers in any given research cycle, and has an active growing community of researchers at RUTGERS and in nearby institutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.