Peripheral equipment and user guides

List of peripheral equipment

Please add useful information about the use of the below equipment (and feel free to add equipment not listed)

USB scanner trigger

This is connected through an optical mouse to the scanner control PC, and sends a simulated mouse click when the scanner starts. If you use DDAs - discarded initial acquisitions - it will not send a click until the first acquired volume. Trigger pulses will only be sent out for functional (EPI) sequences.

The optical mouse will not be detected by the laptop or PC it is connected to until it sends an event; to ensure that the first trigger is not missed when scanning, please move and click on the mouse when it is first connected and before scanning.

Button boxes

CRS button box - It has two key pads for each hand. Gives out 1-4 and 6-9 number responses or BYGR Letter responses. Trigger for EPIs can be set as #5 in number mode or T in letter mode. (Not in operation routinely) Mode 001 - Does not produce repeated responses when a key is pressed down; Mode 003 - Produces repeated responses when a key is pressed for longer. It has a separate power source, please plug it into the extension cable.

NATA button box - please note these only send a signal the first time a button is pressed, even if the key is pressed continuously.

LUMITOUCH button box - these send a continuous signal if a button is pressed continuously.

Eye tracker

Headphones

Neuroconn tDCS

Note that this system is not compatible with the 32-channel head coil; only the old original Siemens head coil can be used.

StarStim tES

This is a high-resolutionn (32-channel) tES (tDCS + tSACS) system that is MRI compatible and has an integrated EEG system (not MRI compatible!).

https://www.neuroelectrics.com/solutions/starstim

Once the system is up and running and tested more details will be published here. Please contact Jonas for more information.