Virtual Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pain Study System

Author

Reid, Gladstone V. ; Bergen, Michael T. ; DeMarco, Robert M. ; Chua, Florence B. ; Ocasio, Michael ; Cook, Dane B.

Author_Institution

Neurobehavioral Research Laboratory, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ; New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

fYear

2006

fDate

01-02 April 2006

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

62

Abstract

A virtual fMRI facility was needed to habituate Persian Gulf War Veteran subjects, participating in a painperception study, to a real fMRI environment similar to a 3 Teslafacility located in the Advanced Imaging Center at UMDNJ. Toaccomplish this, an automated hardware and software systemwas developed using a decommissioned MRI unit, ergonomicmouse, Finapres- Continuous Blood Pressure (BP) Monitor, Dinamap- Automatic BP Monitor, audiovisual feedback system, Medoc- Thermal Sensory Analyzer (TSA), and LabVIEW- 7.0 software. After the creation of the system, tests were conductedto determine if an individual would be more comfortable and lessnervous after repeated trials in the virtual fMRI.

Keywords

Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Boring; Computerized monitoring; Data acquisition; Frequency; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mice; Pain; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference, 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE 32nd Annual Northeast

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9563-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBC.2006.1629752

Filename

1629752