Scanner Operating Checklist PCX

SETUP

Before entering scanner room:

• Glasses?
• Nothing in pockets?
• Bra off?
• Belt off?
• No wig, hair extensions, retainers, piercings?
• No patches/injectables on skin? No surgeries? Nothing not mentioned on the form?

Tell participant:

• Show scanner view, PA system = like radio
• Emergency ball
• No feet/hands/barelegs touching
• No feet crossing, hands crossing
• Scanner = old camera
  • Moving feet/hands = head moves

In scanner room:

• Button box attached
• Head coil 64channel (smaller one)
• HEAD COIL PLUGGED IN
• emergency ball in hand, button box in hand
• earbuds plugged in
• Monitor on and plugged in
• Make sure participant can see monitor in mirror

Set up scan

• Register participant
  • Last name = PCRID
  • fw address goes in “Study Description”
  • Head first supine
  • any polarization
  • Holmes protocol
  • Height, weight, sex

Volume Settings for Siemens (not sensimetric) earbuds:

• Volume: half volume
• Inroom settings: Audio + Speaker at FULL VOLUME

Button box setup:

• HID User 12345
  • if all 4 lights are lit up after auto-reconfigure, go in and reattach button box

Computer setup:

• Press “3” / “LAP” → should see the extension of your laptop screen

Task computer settings

• Volume: half volume
• “No sleep” mode
• Plug in charger
• Open all relevant .py scripts / shut down computationally expensive programs

SCANNING

• Sound check!
• Run AAScout
  • Move to cover nose, skull, neck as much as possible
• Run anat T1
  • After shimming, move the yellow box to cover brain as much as possible
• Copy slices and adjustment volume to all func / fmap scans (except fmap-b0)
• Copy adjustment volume to fmap-b0, dwi
• Run REST-1
  • CHECK rest-1 in MRI View and Go
• Run rest of scanning procedure
  • Take NOTES on Subject_tracker_PCR!

DATA

Sent to Flywheel

Press key magnifying glass guy

• Exam → Participant locker → Export → Network → “Flywheel” checked → Export

Logging

• fill out log fields on clipboard:
  • start time = time partient ended control room/scan room, not first scan
  • add if you go over by doing “+15” “+30” etc
  • can initial for whether you sent to flywheel
  • iLabs is for jeff, don’t initial
  • session notes = anything different that happened, including participant squeezing ball, scan repeated, scan out of order

Starting up and shutting down

• Click on the picture button
  • This turns the scanner on
• Click on the computer power
  • This turns the computer and system on
• Don’t touch the scanner or system while it’s booting up. Don’t touch the scanner
• No password
• Home page will show up

• Click on this:

  

• Message will say ‘machine is booting’
• Once the message goes away, the system is good to go

Shut down

• if you’re the last person, close your windows page:
• TAB + DELETE + EXPORT
  • syngo RM will pop up really quick and og away
  • no password
• homepage
• power button
• “shut down system”
• takes a few mins
• will come down to a blank screen that looks like windows
  • this means you’ve shut down SIEMENS, not windows
• then on the windows page, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE go to power button, press ‘shut down’
• Turn off monitor

To open windows menu for files, SyngoMR, etc

• TAB + DELETE + EXPORT

  

Username: medadmin

Password: adm$pwd$4$med$

No domain

→ Then the windows key will work