ALL published work resulting from research studies fully or partially undertaken at the Center for Brain Science must include formal acknowledgement, using the standardized language below, of support from the Harvard Center for Brain Science. If the research involves data collected on the Prisma MRI scanner, the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant must also be acknowledged.
Acknowledgements should also be included on any posters or presentations.
Please use the following language when acknowledging the Center and the NIH instrumentation grant in all publications:
“This research was carried out in whole or in part at the Harvard Center for Brain Science. This work involved the use of instrumentation supported by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program; specifically, grant number S10OD020039.”
If you used the SMS/multiband sequences:
The Prisma scanner was paid for in part from a NIH grant to the center, and it should be acknowledged when presenting or publishing data collected on the Prisma: NIH grant S10OD020039, along with the general support received from the Center for Brain Science
The SMS-BOLD sequence we are using was developed at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) at University of Minnesota. It is not part of the Siemens product line of sequences, nor a Siemens development (Works-in-Progress) package. Under agreements with Siemens, CMRR is allowed to distribute versions of their sequence to other sites, but are not allowed to charge money for it. As such, it’s a free scientific collaborative exchange, and the terms of the agreement specify that we must acknowledge CMRR and cite their prior publications when any work employing their sequences is written up/reported. When writing up or reporting your work in any format (manuscript, abstract, presentation), please acknowledge the receipt of the software from the University of Minnesota Center for Magnetic Resonance Research in the acknowledgments section. In all manuscripts, abstracts and presentations the following papers should be cited:
- Moeller S, Yacoub E, Olman CA, Auerbach E, Strupp J, Harel N, Ugurbil K. Multiband multislice GE-EPI at 7 tesla, with 16-fold acceleration using partial parallel imaging with application to high spatial and temporal whole-brain fMRI. Magn. Reson. Med. 63:1144-1153 (2010).
- Feinberg DA, Moeller S, Smith SM, Auerbach E, Ramanna S, Glasser MF, Miller KL, Ugurbil K, Yacoub E. Multiplexed Echo Planar Imaging for Sub-Second Whole Brain FMRI and Fast Diffusion Imaging. PLoS One 5:e15710 (2010).
- Xu, J., S. Moeller, E. J. Auerbach, J. Strupp, S. M. Smith, D. A. Feinberg, E. Yacoub and K. Ugurbil. Evaluation of slice accelerations using multiband echo planar imaging at 3 T. Neuroimage 83: 991-1001 (2013).
Failure to acknowledge could result in our Center losing the ability to receive other new advanced methods under development at CMRR in the future.
Please note: this acknowledgement is different from the one that should be used when reporting studies that employed the SMS-BOLD technique on the Trio scanner. Contact Ross (rmair@fas.harvard.edu) if you are reporting work completed on the Trio, and need the appropriate acknowledgements.