York MRI Facility

York University, Toronto, Ontario
What the facility does

Magnetic Resonance Imaging 

Areas of expertise

The York MRI Facility offers high-field MRI capacity with extensive MR-compatible research tools, a full-time medical MRI technologist, an MRI data analyst and public work stations for data analysis. We support R&D-phase medical device development and technology. We offer extensive windows of scanner time, enabling faster and more cost-effective turn-around for research, product development and testing, all within an academic environment.

Research services

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), functional MRI (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging, spectroscopy, in-magnet transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Sectors of application
  • Healthcare and social services
  • Life sciences, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment

Specialized lab

Equipment

Function

York MRI Facility

Siemens MAGNETOM Trio, Tim 3 Tesla MRI scanners

MRI scanner

 

Avotec Silent Vision

Visual projection system

 

SMI Eye Tracker

Eye tracking system

 

Biopac MP150 system

Heart rate, respiration, force grip

 

Lumina, ResponsePixx

Response pads

 

32-channel head coil

 

 

Neck coil

 

 

Spine coil

 

 

Small flex coil

 

 

Optoacoustics FORM III dual channel noise-cancelling microphone

 

Perceptual Neuroscience Lab

Magstim Rapid-2

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

 

Magstim air-cooled TMS coil

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

 

Magstim in-magnet TMS coil

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation within the MRI bore

 

EyeLink II

Remote eye-tracking system

  • VPixx Technologies Inc.

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