Pre-adolescents Exposure to Manganese

= Project Name =
Pre-adolescents Exposure to Manganese

= Project Summary =
The data included in this pilot study are a collection of 14
pre-adolescents recruited in one of the Italian sites exposed
to Manganese. The mean age of the two groups was respectively
14.7 years (s.d.=2.4) and 14.6 years (s.d.= 0.5) with 4 girls
in the first group and 2 in the second.

The fMRI paradigm included an olfactory stimulation which consisted
of 12 alternating task-rest blocks of 25 seconds, 10 volumes/block
(120 volumes) for a total acquisition time of 5 minutes. The MRI
acquisition protocol included a Coronal T2 FSE (TR/TE 5000/102
slice thickness 2 mm, no gap) use for the volumetric measurement
of the olfactory bulb; a time series of 2D echo planar imaging (EPI)
(TR/TE 2500/50 ms, 28 axial slices, 3.3 mm thickness, 1.1 mm
inter-slice gap, matrix size 64x64).

= Investigators =
Emilia Iannilli