NIH Compliance and Analysis Support

Whether a study is actively scanning or wanting to analyze retrospective data with INC, the per session analysis rate is $135/session. A session is defined as a single participant visit and all the acquisitions therein. Back-to-back participants are counted as two separate sessions (even when booked as a single block on the MRI calendar). If a participant needed to unexpectedly leave and re-enter the scanner on the same day (e.g. bathroom, uncomfortable, etc), that participant's data is only counted towards one session. 

What’s Included in our Analysis Support

The analysis rate includes:

1) use of the INC Data/Analysis infrastructure: Flywheel.io, Blanca and Alpine HPC cluster integration

2) help from the INC data/analysis team to run all analyses outlined in the study analysis plan. Quality control, preprocessing, and first level analyses will be prioritized while INC is short staffed in the summer of 2023. 

**Important: study investigators and/or personnel should schedule a meeting with the INC data/analysis team to draft the study analysis plan that details what analyses will be run for a given study. If a study analysis plan was already drafted as part of the grant application process, please share this plan with the INC data and analysis team if you're planning on using INC resources.

How long is analysis assistance included in the analysis rate:

Analysis assistance from the INC data/analysis team is included in the session rate until:

1) all analyses outlined in the analysis plan are complete for all subjects. 

**Note: for the summer of 2023 while INC is short staffed, this may exclude second-level analysis such as CONN, group models, etc.

While INC is happy to troubleshoot, address questions, and provide training on analyses or the Flywheel infrastructure during INC's D&A Office Hours, once a study finishes scanning or completes all analyses in the outlined analysis plan, INC staff will hand over the responsibility for running any future analyses to study personnel. Study personnel can continue to access their data and use the Flywheel infrastructure to run supplementary analyses not outlined in the plan, but INC staff will be minimally involved unless special arrangements are made.