Starting, running and finishing a project with MR

The first step in starting a project with us is to fill in an application form (see below). You are always welcome to contact us at subic@su.se if you wish to discuss general questions and possibilities. We offer help from day one of the planning in order for you to get the most out of your research study.

Project application

Before you can start collecting MR data for a project you will need to fill in an application form with invoice information. Send us an email to receive the form: subic@su.se

The form will ask for several things, e.g. what equipment you will use, estimated starting/finishing of the project and an approximation of how many hours you will book.

NB! You need to fill in all the researchers that will be working in the MR laboratory for the project, in order to plan for their training. The project application will only be accepted once we have agreed on the planning of the training of the researchers involved in the project (see below).

Once the project application is accepted and the training is completed, you will receive access to SUBICs facilities by the laboratory manager and log in details for our online booking system.

Booking

When booking the scanner you get free access to the “behavioral lab” for 30 min before and after the booking. You do however need to book the room to secure it. All peripheral equipment like BIOPAC and eye-tracker is included in the price.

Booking the scanner is done in our booking system Calpendo.

Instructions for Calpendo

To Calpendo

Rules for MR scanner bookings

With the purpose to make the MR lab accessible and efficient with large number of projects running at the same time, there are a few rules regarding how you are allowed to book time slots for the MR scanner.

• Cancellations must be done at least 48 hours in advance (not counting the weekend), or you will still be charged for the booked time.
• Your booking is not allowed to create empty time slots of less than 1 hour.
• If you need to book longer slots than 5 hours (during Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00) you have to contact us first. After 18:00, and during weekends, you are free to book longer slots.
• You are not allowed to have more than 20 hours booked at any time.

If your project has particular needs, you can contact us to make an exception and discuss solutions.

Here is important information for when you are about to publish the results from your MR study.

Mention SUBIC in publications and we promote your study

We strongly encourage you to mention SUBIC in acknowledgements and/or material and methods. You are also required to report your publications and posters back to us: subic@su.se

We will link to your publication at su.se/subic as well as share it on our social media, promoting your study further. Displaying SUBICs publication output in this manner will in the long run allow you to continue doing studies here and enjoying all the support we offer. This is due to that prices for using our equipment are subsidized and SUBIC is dependent on external funding. We very much appreciate your help!

Fulfill acknowledgement demands

Make sure that you fulfill any potential acknowledgement demands if your scanning protocol contains some MR sequence/feature that is not a standard Siemens product. If this is the case, it would have been made clear to you when we put together your protocol.