In collaboration with the MIRECC, the BIAC will be acquiring an olfactometer (http://www.mindwaretech.com/product_Olfactometer.htm)for odorant presentation in the MR environment. The system installation will take place on January 18th and training will take place on Jan 19-20. Please let me know if you are interested in participating in the training session.
The olfactometer training will take place at Duke North BIAC in the 4 T suite area. . The training will cover topics including an overview of the olfactometer design and operation, stimulus presentation software, loading odorant canisters, and odorant delivery, olfacotmeter clean-up and many others. The training will last about 2 hours beginning at 10 AM on Friday Jan 20th. We will break for lunch then run a human subject after lunch. Please let me know if you have questions.
Because there is a scan until 11am. Olfactometer training will begin in the computer lab at north (located at the end of the hall - where the BIAC Duke North offices are located). If you're unsure where this is, just let me know.
Michele T. Diaz, Ph.D. Associate Director Brain Imaging and Analysis Center