Mock MR Scanner Room Just Received a Child-Friendly Upgrade

UBSN is pleased to announce that the Mock MR Scanner at UBSN has gone even more child-friendly!

A carefully designed wallpaper has been installed on all walls of the scanner room, to provide a more colourful and approachable experience for scanning participants.

 

 

The mock MR system is designed to provide participants an experience similar to what they will experience in the real MRI scanner. It includes a moving table, a realistic head coil, equipment for audio presentation of scanner noise, visual and audio stimulation system, and a set of button boxes for participants responses.

 

In practice, failed MRI scans and unusable data caused by claustrophobia, anxiety, and excessive head and body motion cost significant time and resources. Acclimating participants to the environment with a mock scanner will increase the rate of successful data acquisition and quality of fMRI data. The mock scanner is also extremely useful for young children to orient them to the MRI environment and for training for in-scanner tasks.