The 3T Prisma scanner is a Magnetic Resonance Imaging system configured with up to 64 receiver channels comprised of up to 204 coil elements with up to 128 independent RF channels. It has has a 60 cm bore diameter and a 50x50x50 cm3 imaging field of view. It offers Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) with up to 256 directions, Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI) with up to 514 diffusion directions, remarkable flow sensitivity and time-resolved Angiography with XR 80/200, fully integrated funtional MRI/DTI evaluation, enhanced iPAT performance, powerful shimming with multinuclear spectroscopy, TimTX TrueShape and syngo ZOOMit with high resolution Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) and long-term signal stability for demanding research sequences.
• The Prisma has software version XA30 (since 12/27/23).
• For a complete listing of installed software packages please contact the BMC Techs.
Auxiliary Computers
• Windows 10
• E-Prime 2 Professional, Version 2.0.10.356
• Movies
• Fixations
• MS Office 2016
• PsychoPy2, Version 1.83.04
• AcqKnowlegde 4.4
• Audacity
• OptiMRI 3.1
• Matlab 2014b
MAC LAPTOP #1
• El Capitan
• Audacity
• Adobe Acrobat 9
• Movies
• Fixations
• MS Office 2011
• PsychoPy2, Version 1.83.04
• Matlab 2014b
MAC LAPTOP #2
• Snow Leopard
• Matlab R.2011B
• MS Office 2008
• Acknowledge 3.9.2
• Windows 7 (on Parallels)
• E-Prime 2 Professional
• Matlab R.2013B
• Button Response Devices - Current Designs
1. 1X4 - buttons in a straight row
2. 2X2 - split boxes, you may use just one box if applicable
3. 2X4 - curved row of buttons, you may use just one box, good for smaller hands or
subjects' with limited range of motion
4. Joystick: HHSC-JOY-1 (older model than what is currently on the current designs website)
• Participant Viewing Camera - MREyes - located at the back of the bore
• Headphones, active noice cancelling - Optoacoustics
• Intercoms - Siemens and Optoacoustics
• LCD BOLDscreen 24" (located at the back of the bore)
• Microphone, active noice cancelling - Optoacoustics
• Corrective Prescription Lenses
1. Goggle lenses range from +3 to -9
2. LCD lenses range from +6 to -6
The Prisma (3T) unit has the following coils, which are receive-only except where otherwise specified:
• 20 channel head/neck coil = 16 channel head + 4 channel neck
• 32 channel head coil
• 64 channel head/neck coil = 48 channel head + 16 channel neck
• 4 channel large and small flex coils
• 4 channel small flex coil
• 18 channel body flex coil
• 32 channel spine coil
• Transmit/receive - circularly polarized no-tune head coil compatible with certain implanted equipment such as vagus nerve stimulators
• fBIRN
• ABCD
• Spectral
• Spectroscopy
• Standard Siemens
Reference: http://www.healthcare.siemens.com/magnetic-resonance-imaging/3t-mri-scanner/magnetom-prisma/use
