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

2000年，Dieter Vaitl教授博士成立了Bender神经成像研究所（BION），这是德国第一家在心理科中投入使用磁共振成像（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团体能够使用MRI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）是多学科神经科学研究领域中最突出的研究方法。由于高运营成本，优化扫描仪的使用并将BION组织为具有本地和全国性存在的研究核心单位是有意义的。本申请的目的是为其用户增加更专业、更有效和更可靠的支持。这些计划中的进步将吸引来自内部的新研究人员，特别是来自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。为此目的，基础设施资源需要专业化的方式，所有用户获得最佳支持的规划，进行和心理实验设计的统计分析取决于他们的需求由程序PLEASURE（规划，实验和分析支持研究）。PLEASURE计划包括开发新的服务，这些服务将在过去15年的心理MRI研究中获得经验。因为所有的服务和资源都是透明和可访问的，它可以成为其他网站的原型模型。由于以下原因，BION注定要成为DFG MRI心理学核心单元（Gerätezentrum）。首先，一台现代化的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。每次实验后，不必移除实验装置。其次，大量与心理学研究问题高度相关的最先进设备（例如，同步fMRI-EEG记录放大器、眼动追踪设备、视觉、听觉和触觉刺激设备、反应箱单元）。第三，BION在组织外部合作项目方面经验丰富。第四，BION位于德国中部，通过法兰克福火车站和法兰克福机场，可以方便地前往国内和国际。

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.