Updated Nov 18 2024
If you work at the MR4 Human Research MRI scanner, you are required to go through safety training. You should also seriously consider maintaining HeartSaver CPR certification. If you intend to run the MR scanner, then CPR certification is required. You only need safety training from this university once (NOT every year). However, we recommend that if you have not scanned in 3 years, even though you completed the safety training once at this university, that you go through safety training again.
Go through your PI or lab manager to get signed up for the D2L U of A MRI safety training, If your PI/Lab manager does not have instructor status on the D2L MRI Safety site, contact Dianne Patterson (dkp @ arizona.edu).
Correspondence should include your PI or lab manager as those people are ultimately responsible for determining whether your scores on the material merit access to the MRI scanner.
After you have been signed up on the D2L site, search for "MRI Safety" on D2L using "All" (because the site is not associated with any particular semester).
You will need to complete these tasks:
Watch the interactive safety video, and fill out the MRI screening (also available on the D2L site). You do not need to submit the MRI screening, we just want to make sure you are safe, and that you have looked carefully at all the questions on the screening. You can ask your PI, the MR tech, or me (dkp@email.arizona.edu) if you have any questions about the MRI Screening and what counts as safe.
Take the MRI Safety Quiz.
Ask your PI or lab manager to review the quiz with you and ensure your understanding meets their safety standards.
In order to be eligible for building access and human scanning, you must meet with the MR tech (Scott Squire or Heidi Elledge) at the BSRL building to see the scanner and peripherals in person. Print out the MRI Training Certificate for the tech to sign and date when you meet.
Someone from your lab group with building access should accompany you to the scanner to ensure you have completed the process and confirm that the lab is requesting you be granted building access.
This helps ensure that only people with a legitimate need for building access are allowed to obtain that access.
Keep the signed certificate and show it to the PI or lab manager who signed you up on the D2L site so that your grade for the requirement can be set to "Pass". Alternatively, email a picture of the signed certificate to Dianne Patterson (dkp @ arizona.edu).
Read the TBIR Code of Conduct in the 3T Documentation Box Folder.
Completing these steps is A GOOD START for safety training. Note, however, that the ultimate responsibility for your behavior at the scanner rests with you and your PI. The scanner can be extremely dangerous and even deadly if you make bad choices. Furthermore, your bad choices could result in all MRI research being shut down across campus. If you have ANY concerns about the safety of a participant, don't hesitate to email or call the MR tech and ask. I've been doing this for 20 years and I still email or call Scott periodically to ask about specific safety concerns.
Don't be complacent!
After you have completed safety training, you can request access to the scan schedule and building if your lab approves.
Provide Scott Squire with your full name, cat card number and NetID.
The whole process should take less than 24 hours unless someone in the chain is out of the office.
If it doesn't work after that, please contact Andy Rouse (rouse @ arizona.edu) directly and he'll work with Robert Sandoval (the building manager) to diagnose the problem. Again, any correspondence should be originate from your Lab manager or PI or be copied to at least one of them.
You can ALWAYS contact me (dkp @ arizona.edu) if the process seems to have failed.
You can read about access to the scheduler and the building on the MR4 Scanner Equipment page.
U of A MRI Screening form (recommended)
MRI Screening form (older local version)
MRIsafety.com MRI screening form (very thorough but tiny printing)
Implanted Devices: MRI Safety Look up the make and model of any implanted device of concern. It should be rated SAFE (green). If it is not rated safe, you should not scan at 3T (or you should inquire with Scott). Up to conditional 4 can usually be accommodated without any problem, 4 and 5 require knowing and following very specific restrictions.
Video of MR scan (to show potential participants)
For human scanning, you will need:
HIPAA certification,
CITI Training (Biomedical AND Social and Behavioral Certification)
You should be CPR certified to work at the MR4 human research scanner, even if you are not the operator.
TucsonCPR can provide classes:
CPR/AED: Adult, Pediatric & Infant (Workplace/Community) (1.5 Hours)
The cost is $24 per person. Discounts are available for 2 or more students at a time and they will travel to a location for 5 or more students.
You can pay over the phone or the day of registration. They *don’t* take cash the day of registration.
Online CPR Training
Here is an alternative for your busy schedule: https://www.simplecpr.com/. You can take the online CPR /AED Adult-Child-Infant course as a refresher if you have taken the real in-person training at least once.
See https://sbs.arizona.edu/research-support/covidrestart
As of May 27, 2021:
The University of Arizona entered Stage 5 of the Research Restart Plan on May 24, 2021.
RII research restart checklists are no longer required (as of May 24).
The SBS checklist supplementary form is also no longer required.
You must continue to wear a mask in the buildings and around participants.
Additional Safety Issue: Fabrics that have anti-microbial properties (some masks) often contain micro-threads made of metal that can heat up and cause severe burns. https://sites.wustl.edu/petersenschlaggarlab/about-fmri/