Technical and scientific expertise
- Methodological, statistical and technical support at all stages of human neuroscience studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Coordination of the use of MRI by neuroscience researchers
- Training for MRI users
- Certification of researchers who wish to carry out MRI acquisitions independently (in collaboration with the radiology department of Saint-Luc University Hospital)
- Scientific monitoring of methodological, statistical and technical advances
- Maintenance and development of research equipment for MRI
- Setting up and maintaining an MRI data management system
Main equipment
- 3T MRI model SIGNATM Premier (General Electric Company) equipped with a 48-channel head antenna
- MRI-compatible hardware for stimulation (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.) and recording of participants’ behavioural and/or physiological responses
- NordicNeuroLab equipment:
- 32-inch full HD LCD screen
- Audio system (frequency range: 8 Hz to 35 kHz)
- Subject response device
- Stimuli synchronisation device
- Support for development of MRI-compatible devices and testing of new hardware
Applications
- Functional neuroimaging (BOLD contrast) with task or at rest
- Functional neuroimaging by pseudo-continuous arterial spin labelling (pcASL)
- Functional brain connectivity
- Morphometric brain imaging (volumetry, cortical thickness, curvature, etc.)
- Diffusion imaging (white matter microstructure, brain fibre visualisation, structural brain connectivity)
- Myelin mapping
- Mapping of brain lesions
- Spectroscopy and functional spectroscopy (H-fMRS)
Services available to
- UCLouvain students, clinicians and researchers
- University and industry partners (request a quote)
