Virtual lab for fMRI: Bridging the usability gap

Silvia D. Olabarriaga, Piter T. De Boer, Ketan Maheshwari, Adam Belloum, Jeroen G. Snel, Aart J. Nederveen, Maurice Bouwhuis

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Abstract

Grid technology can offer a powerful infrastructure for a broad spectrum of (scientific) application areas, but the uptake of grids by "real" applications has been slow. Several aspects contribute to this scenario, among them a large gap between the communities that develop and use the technology. While grid developments focus mostly on functionality, usability issues are also very important for the endusers. In the VL-e project, one of the goals is to bridge this gap, bringing (existing) grid technology to end-users in various application domains. This paper describes the current attempts to provide an IT infrastructure to facilitate neuroimaging research, in particular functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), which enables the study of brain function. The infrastructure offers resources for fMRI data acquisition, data storage, computing and services. All (local and grid) resources are accessed directly by the users from a virtual desktop implemented by a Virtual Resource Browser (VBrowser).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicatione-Science 2006 - Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Evente-Science 2006 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 4 Dec 20066 Dec 2006

Publication series

Namee-Science 2006 - Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing

Conference

Conferencee-Science 2006 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period4/12/20066/12/2006

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