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| Like MRI projects, MEG project proposals should first be presented at an IIG CbuImaging:ImagersInterestGroup, and then time "slots" requested via the MEG form available here RequestForMegSlots, which should be downloaded, completed and emailed to MarionOrmandy and/or LucilleMurby to be considered at the next meeting of the IMC CbuImaging:ImagingManagementCommittee. | All MEG studies require the presence of a qualified "MEG Operator", as defined in the [attachment:CBUFMEG%5FSOP%5F%31%31%5F%30%32%30%35%30%37.pdf the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS)] which you need to read before running any studies in the MEG lab. The Operator who will actually run the MEG machine. |
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| Once your project proposal has been endorsed by the IMC, please email YuryShtyrov. ''(Precise scheduling of MEG scanning slots is still to be decided)''. | Please, note, that to run your study with an operator, you will have to become authorised as an MEG researcher. The authorisation procedure is described in the SOPs; briefly, it includes a general introduction to the lab by a qualified operator, reading the SOPs, an assessment of your knowledge of the procedures (particular attention is paid to volunteer and equipment safety aspects) and attending an ongoing MEG study. |
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| Note that MEG projects on healthy volunteers do not require LREC approval, but do require CPREC approval (an existing CPREC for behavioural studies is not sufficient; you will need to make a new CPREC request, or seek an amendment to an existing CPREC approval, to extend it to MEG). A new CPREC application needs to include the usual information about your psychological paradigm/s in addition to explaining that you will be performing the study with MEG. An application also needs to include the information sheet that will be given to participants, for which the following can be used as a template attachment:General_CPREC_MEG_volunteer_info.rtf may be useful in this respect. | Even though the Operator who will run the data acquisition machine, proper project settings for data acqusition are a responsibility of a particular MEG researcher. Please, once you are ready to run your study, contact the operators well in advance to discuss the settings and stimulation requirements. |
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| Manuals for the data acquisition software are available to people with Cambridge approved logins at ElektaSoftwareManuals. | Running the stimulation computers and making sure your paradigm is compatible with the MEG machine is the researcher's responsibility. The operators will not run your stimulus delivery programs for you. |
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| If you are using any non-standard equipment or make any changes in the setting (be they hardware or software), make sure to undo your changes in the end of your recording slot and leave the lab in the same state you found it before the recording. For your general information, manuals for the data acquisition software are available to people with Cambridge approved logins at ElektaSoftwareManuals. StimulusDetails |
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Running MEG studies
All MEG studies require the presence of a qualified "MEG Operator", as defined in the [attachment:CBUFMEG%5FSOP%5F%31%31%5F%30%32%30%35%30%37.pdf the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS)] which you need to read before running any studies in the MEG lab. The Operator who will actually run the MEG machine.
Please, note, that to run your study with an operator, you will have to become authorised as an MEG researcher. The authorisation procedure is described in the SOPs; briefly, it includes a general introduction to the lab by a qualified operator, reading the SOPs, an assessment of your knowledge of the procedures (particular attention is paid to volunteer and equipment safety aspects) and attending an ongoing MEG study.
Even though the Operator who will run the data acquisition machine, proper project settings for data acqusition are a responsibility of a particular MEG researcher. Please, once you are ready to run your study, contact the operators well in advance to discuss the settings and stimulation requirements.
Running the stimulation computers and making sure your paradigm is compatible with the MEG machine is the researcher's responsibility. The operators will not run your stimulus delivery programs for you.
If you are using any non-standard equipment or make any changes in the setting (be they hardware or software), make sure to undo your changes in the end of your recording slot and leave the lab in the same state you found it before the recording.
For your general information, manuals for the data acquisition software are available to people with Cambridge approved logins at ElektaSoftwareManuals.
More will follow here soon.