MGH Morphometric Analysis Center
Director: Nikos Makris
Location: Building 149 13th Street, Room 10.006, Charlestown
| Core Summary: |
The MGH Morphometric Analysis Center (MMAC) is established for the generation of neuroanatomic morphometric measurements. The operational synergies in the combined approaches of the Center for Morphometric Analysis (CMA) and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging as well as the commonality of the application areas represent a unified approach to the delivery of these morphometric measures to the Partners community. The Core transitions morphometric methods developments into ‘production mode’, as the efficiency and quantity of application areas grow. The MGH Morphometric Analysis Center provides the infrastructure to support the necessary level of administrative, operational, financial and physical presence that is necessary to provide a more efficient, cost effective and flexible morphometric measurement service to meet the needs of the clinical community.
| Personnel/Contact Information: |
Director:
Nikos Makris, M.D., Ph.D.
Phone: (617)
726-5743
Fax: (617) 726-5711
Email: nikos@cma.mgh.harvard.edu
Other Staff:
Bruce Fischl, Ph.D.
Email:
fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Brad Dickerson, M.D.
Email: bradd@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
| Facilities and Equipment: |
Location of Core:
The facility is located at Building 149 13th Street, Room 10.006, Charlestown.
Major Equipment:- (16) Dual Pentium processors running Linux. 1024+Mby RAM.
- 2+ TB online RAID disk space for storing images and morphometric data and for developing software.
- (4)
Linix-based servers; 1 dedicated web services, 1 dedicated to CD writing for
permanent data backup and storage and 2 dedicated file servers each serving
a RAID disk systems.
| Services: |
The services that are offered fall into two classes of anatomic procedure: ‘General Segmentation’ and ‘Cortical Parcellation’. General Segmentation includes all principle gross structures of the human brain, including cortex, white matter, and cerebral deep gray matter structures. Cortical Parcellation involves assessment of the cerebral cortex in the context of gyral-based regions.
Each of the classes of anatomic analysis can be delivered in an ‘automated’ and ‘manual’ mode. The ‘manual’ mode involves substantial technician involvement in all stages of the segmentation procedures, and follows a long established analysis and anatomic definition protocol. The ‘automated’ mode involves reduced technician intervention, but follows newer, computationally encoded anatomic analysis conventions.| FY12 User Fees (Effective 10/1/11-9/30/12): |
| Service | Internal Users |
External Users |
||
Class of Anatomic Structure |
Automatic/Manual |
Partners |
Non Partners AMC & Non-Profit |
For-Profit & Industry |
| General Segmentation | Semi-Automated | $780 |
$1,120.00 |
$1,234.33 |
| Cortical Parcellation | Semi-Automated | $520 |
$750.00 |
$822.92 |
| Engineering Consulting Service | Automated | $50 |
$72.00 |
$79.20 |
| Getting Started: |
To access the core, please contact Nikos Makris by email at nikos@cma.mgh.harvard.edu.
| Departmental Web Link: |
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/
http://www.cma.mgh.harvard.edu/
