Regulation

Access to the MRI Lab is granted after attending a Safety Course provided by the MRI Lab and the supervision of a member of the MRI Lab Staff only. You will not have access to the MRI Room (Zone 4, see the planimetry below for more infos about Zones).

MRI Lab

In the MRI Lab, experiments (Human Scans) can be carried out as long as the required healthcare staff are available (MRI Technician and, if applicable, a Radiologist to perform an experiment) on working days, 8AM to 7PM (excluding public holidays or other days communicated by the MRI Staff).

Training

Before accessing the MRI Lab, users must complete general safety training provided online by UniTN:

  • the “Health and Safety at Work Course - General” for teachers, researchers, research fellows or the “Health and Safety at Work Course - General for students” if you are a PhD or Master student. Provided by UniTN, the course has unlimited validity; once passed, the user must enter the result into CIMeC Laboratory Agenda and Research Accounting (CLARA), by uploading the course-completion certificate;

  • the “Low risk” Safety Course for teachers, researchers, research fellows or the “Low risk for students” if you are a PhD or Master student. Provided by UniTN, certification is valid for 5 years; once passed, the user must enter the course-completion certificate into CLARA;

  • “Regulation (GDPR)” Course and the specific module “Guidelines to Privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - RESEARCH MODULE”. The courses are provided by UniTN; once passed, the course-completion certificates of both courses must be entered into CLARA;

  • the “Covid-19” Course (not mandatory). Provided by UniTN, once passed, the result must be entered into CLARA, by uploading course-completion certificate.

All listed/required courses can be found here.

Users must also complete specific training deliveded by MRI Staff, and in some cases, preventive medical screening.

Authorisation to accesso the MRI Lab

After completing general training, new users must complete the following steps:

  • complete MRI Safety Training (three-year validity), with passage entered into CLARA by the MRI Facility ER;
  • upload the approval by the UniTN Research Ethics Committee of the PI's request for inclusion of the user as a "New Project Member". The document is entered into CLARA by the centre administration;
  • reading and acceptance of the online laboratoy booking procedure, self-declared by the user in CLARA.

One these steps have been completed, CLARA allows the researcher to access the Booking System (using UniTN credentials) and, thus, to access the laboratory. For the three-year renewal of authorisation to access the MRI Lab, the researcher must carry out MRI Safetyu Course Retraining, and passing it must be entered into CLARA by the ER for another three-year of validity. Regardless of training, Bachelors/Master's and other undergraduate students, as well as undergraduate trainees, can accesso the Lab only when accompanied by the researcher carrying out the experiment.

Warning

For safety reasons, a maximum number of three (3) researchers, students included, are allowed to accesso Zone 3 (see Planimetry for more info about Zones).

Annual authorisation to access the MRI Room

If the researcher needs special access to not only the MRI Lab but also to take volunteers into the MRI Room, the following is also required:

  • certificate of fitness to work in the MRI Room, issued by the appointed physician for health at work; this authorisation is entered into CLARA by the ER (valid for one year).

For annual renewal of authorisation to access the MRI Room, the researcher must:

  • renew the certificate of fitnes to woek in the MRI Room, again issued by the appointed physician for health at work; again entered into CLARA by the ER (valid for one year).

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