ALA Scientific BrainDancer fMRI calibration system for brain imaging

The BrainDancer by ALA Scientific is a commercial-grade dynamic phantom, designed to identify and correct systematic scanner-induced noise using ALA Scientific’s deep learning algorithm, NoiseNet. The product can be used in a variety of applications, such as macropatch, single-channel and whole-cell recording, cardiac rhythmicity, systems neuroscience, exocytosis, brain/spinal cord slice recording and retinol physiology.

Features include: pneumatically controlled movement; rotating inner cylinder to produce T2* changes within voxels; imitation of BOLD amplitudes of human brains; motion synchronised with MR scanner; externally triggered programmable sequences; NoiseNet software for temporal noise estimation; a clean signal and strong results.

The dynamic phantom is designed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and can also be used for standardisation of protocols and normalisation between scanners.