Arduino を用いた疑似fMRI 実験用装置の開発と検証

抄録

The fMRI is used for the brain activity measurement. In the fMRI experiment, a software program was sometimes used for visual stimuli. Those software programs must be tested to succeed the fMRI experiments. In this case, enough money and time need for testing a program in fMRI experiment. Altogether, outside tests of experimental program is desired. In order to achieve this, we created two interfaces using the Arduino. The created interfaces were a synchronization signal generator and a controller. The synchronization signal generator can be implemented in the software program. However, there is a possibility that an operation becomes slowly during execution of the program. Therefore, we created the synchronization signal generator as external equipment. The controller was sometimes used in fMRI experiment. We created a 4 buttons controller similar to a controller of our fMRI experimental environment. This paper describe proposals and verification of a special interface.