Outpatient Exam Rooms

The outpatient exam rooms support all clinical imaging studies that include complex cognitive, pharmacological and physiological challenges and monitoring both before and during imaging. Physical examinations, cognitive testing, insertion of intravenous lines, and other patient centered activities are carried out in the exam rooms. There are four semi-private (curtains can separate the patient recliners) exam areas in one large room and two private rooms with stimulus presentation capabilities that replicate what is in the imaging environment. The private exam rooms are sound-attenuated and equipped for performing physical exams. One of the private rooms is shielded and thus appropriate for conducting electrical and optical imaging studies.

The electrically shielded exam room is equipped for physiological monitoring, blood sampling, and drug infusions. The physiological monitoring modular system purchased for the exam room duplicates the system that is currently set up in the 1.5 T MRI suite. In the next year similar systems will be installed in the 3 T system in Bay 4 and for the MEG/EEG suite. The modular physiological monitoring system includes equipment to measure invasive and non-invasive blood pressure, heart rate, EKG, oxygen saturation, temperature, skin conductance, expired oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations and respiration rate. The outpatient exam room and Bay 4 MR suite are also equipped with medical grade air, O2 and CO2.