I'm delighted to announce that Dr. Becky Inkster 
will be joining us as a part time radiographer at 
BUCNI.  Becky did her PhD at Oxford in genetics 
and also was  a radiographer at their OCMR centre 
where I was fortunate to work with her.  She's 
got tons of experience scanning on Siemen's 
machines doing both structure and functional 
work.  In fact, she currently works full time at 
GlaxoSmithKline investigating the relation 
between genetic factors and brain structure so 
she's a keen user of MRI herself.

Becky will be available to act as a scan operator 
for anyone who could use her help starting in the 
next week or so.  We are currently trying to 
determine a set of hours that suits her 
schedule.  This is likely to include tuesday 
afternoons into the evening and one or two week 
days in the early evening hours (eg 5-8pm) and/or 
one weekend day.  Once this schedule is 
finalized, I will post it here.  We are very keen 
to make the most of this opportunity by using all 
of Becky's hours each week.  Hopefully this will 
be easy to do as more and more people have 
expressed an interest in acquiring data but have 
been limited by not having trained scan operators.

One of the other things Becky will provide is a 
chance to train individuals to become scan 
operators.  In general, this basically means that 
an operator-trainee  will have to run the scanner 
under Becky's supervision for something like 10 
hours of scanning time to get acquainted with how 
it all works, what can go wrong, and what to do 
when something does go wrong.  So this time 
can/should be combined with running your own studies.

Finally, it's important to note that we will be 
charging £40/hr for scanning with Becky to cover 
her salary.  So regardless of your particular 
arrangements for paying for scan fees, there is 
an addition charge for every hour of Becky's time 
that needs to be covered.  In practice, this 
means that for most people they will be paying 
£40/hr for scanning, which is a major bargain!!

So please help to make use of this excellent new 
resource and hopefully we'll all have new data pouring in. ;)

Cheers,
Joe


the money to pay for all this will

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