Noise scans at beginning of sequence

[kweldon1]

Hello,

I'm running the MBME pre6 on XA30.

Is it possible to add an option that noise scans be collected at the beginning of a sequence vs the end? We scan lots of long resting state on infants/kids and sometimes have to end scans early (if a baby wakes up for instance), which means we lose out on the noise scans and can't run NORDIC on the data that was good and low-motion. An option to acquire noise at the beginning gives our operators more flexibility with populations with limited endurance. For task fMRI it makes sense to keep noise acqs at the end though so we'd want to retain that function. Thanks!

Kim