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title: Peripheral equipment and user guides
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# Peripheral equipment and user guides

[![PDF](https://cubicwiki.psychologyresearch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pdf.jpg)](https://cubicwiki.psychologyresearch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cubic_aptraining_requirements.pdf) [List of peripheral equipment](https://cubicwiki.psychologyresearch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cubic_mri_equipment_list_.pdf)

## User guides

**Please add useful information about the use of the below equipment** (and feel free to add equipment not listed)

***USB scanner trigger***

This is connected through an optical mouse to the scanner control PC, and sends a simulated mouse click when the scanner starts. If you use DDAs - discarded initial acquisitions - it will not send a click until the first acquired volume. Trigger pulses will only be sent out for functional (EPI) sequences. ![FIXME](http://54.236.43.240/lib/images/smileys/fixme.svg)

The optical mouse will not be detected by the laptop or PC it is connected to until it sends an event; to ensure that the first trigger is not missed when scanning, please move and click on the mouse when it is first connected and before scanning.

***Button boxes***

CRS button box - It has two key pads for each hand. Gives out 1-4 and 6-9 number responses or BYGR Letter responses. Trigger for EPIs can be set as #5 in number mode or T in letter mode. (Not in operation routinely) Mode 001 - Does not produce repeated responses when a key is pressed down; Mode 003 - Produces repeated responses when a key is pressed for longer. It has a separate power source, please plug it into the extension cable.

NATA button box - please note these only send a signal the first time a button is pressed, even if the key is pressed continuously.

LUMITOUCH button box - these send a continuous signal if a button is pressed continuously.

***Eye tracker***

***Headphones***

***Neuroconn tDCS***

Note that this system is not compatible with the 32-channel head coil; only the old original Siemens head coil can be used.

***StarStim tES***

This is a high-resolutionn (32-channel) tES (tDCS + tSACS) system that is MRI compatible and has an integrated EEG system (not MRI compatible!).

[https://www.neuroelectrics.com/solutions/starstim](https://www.neuroelectrics.com/solutions/starstim)

Once the system is up and running and tested more details will be published here. Please contact [Jonas](mailto:jonas.larsson@rhul.ac.uk) for more information.

peripheral-equipment.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/24 08:36 by jonas