Beauchamp:Subjects
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Beauchamp Lab
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Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer in one of our experiments.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, please send an e-mail to
UTfmri@gmail.com
Forms: Before scanning, please click on each form in order to download the form to your computer. Then, print the form out, fill it in, and bring with you to your appointment.
Form #1: MR Procedure Screening
Form #4: Examination Order Form
The Inter-Departmental Transfer Voucher Form shouldn't need to be filled out once a month, but it's here just in case.
The experimenter must fill out an Experiment Sheet (here's one specific for Yoshor experiments)
Scanning Documents: After the experiment, all forms must be scanned in and placed in the subject's experiment directory. The scanner scans both sides of every page automatically, so please use the back of the experiment sheet and print the consent form two-sided.
Coordinator for Dr. Yoshor's patients: Pam Wilson
Scheduling: Pam will work with Audrey to determine available dates for patient scanning. She will schedule the scans at UT (typically within 2 weeks prior to implantation). Make sure patients are able to wear contact lenses and have decongestants/allergy medication with them!
Consents: Pam will mail them the consent forms in advance. Audrey will collect Mike and Daniel's consent forms. She will put a PDF copy of the consent forms on the server and send a copy to Ping (who can slip it into the patient binder). A hard copy of the consent forms should be given to Daniel in a folder as well.
Payment: Day before the scan, give Susan Papalexandris an IOU form and pick up the money (call her first). The subject is paid at the time of the scan, and fills out a Subject Payment Form (above). Make it clear to the subject that the payment is for the fMRI study (and not for any electrophys experiments later). This can be exchanged by the experimenter with Susan for reimbursement.
Day of scan: Pam will coordinate escorts with Audrey (since the patient will be getting their presurgical workup done as well as their structural and functional research scans). Pam will handle lunch and parking reimbursement. Give payment and sign forms. Go over the tasks with the patient on the laptop and explain instructions. For Yoshor patients ONLY, a CD with T1 images in DICOM format (.DCM files) must be created by Vips and then given to Yoshor or a representative. Call Pam afterwards and find out where to send the patient. Update the pt info spreadsheet, scan in documents, copy Beauchamp consent for Daniel. Copy over Presentation files into "behavioral data" folder on the server. Return payment receipt to Susan.
MRI processing: In the days between the scan and implantation, Audrey will make a cortical surface model and put the T1 scans on a CD.
CT scan: Once post-implantation CT is acquired, Daniel will contact Audrey regarding where to pick it up. Having the CT available in Y2230 will be most convenient. (She may get into trouble thumbing through the patient chart or trying to pick up the imaging herself from radiology, since she will neither be involved in patient care nor have a BCM ID.) When she comes to pick up the CT, she will load both the structural MR and CT images onto Stealth. This will be used for anatomical orientation in case the CT-MRI merge by AFNI is not done in time for experiments. Then, she will take the CT and a copy of the surgical electrode assignments (from Lisa's drawings) to perform the CT-MRI merge.
Audrey will tag all putative visual electrodes. She will bring back printed snapshots (to be included in the patient binders) of the electrodes on interesting functional activations. She will also bring a DVD labeled with both Mike and Daniel's codes that includes the relevant AFNI data to view (on the mac in Y2230) the electrodes and any of the functional activations on the cortical surfaces created for each patient. She will bring a printout of the pt info spreadsheet, also (for inclusion in the patient binder).
After the patient is implanted with electrodes, we get a post-implantation CT. This is aligned with the pre-implantation MRI. The electrode locations are manually selected in AFNI and saved to a file. This file can be read into SUMA to make a picture of the cortical surface model with overlying electrodes, which can be given to Yoshor.
