fMRI

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Medicine/Medical.

1. Also called functional MRI.  functional magnetic resonance imaging: a procedure that uses MRI technology to measure and map brain activity by detecting changes in the brain’s blood flow and oxygenation.

2. functional magnetic resonance imager: a type of MRI scanner that is used in this procedure.

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FMRI British  

abbreviation

1. functional magnetic resonance imaging: a technique that directly measures the blood flow in the brain, thereby providing information on brain activity

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FMRI Cultural  

1. Abbreviation for f unctional m agnetic r esonance i maging. In FMRI, a patient is placed in a high magnetic field and delicate measurements of magnetic fields associated with processes like blood flow are made. In this way, the functioning of organs like the brain can be monitored as they occur. (Compare MRI.)

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FMRI images are used to determined which parts of the brain “light up” when a function such as speech or recognition is performed.

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"There is a pressing need for greater understanding of how neurodevelopmental disorders change early brain development, and awake fMRI has considerable potential to address this."

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By combining task based experiments with fMRI data, the team found no measurable difference in brain activity between successful episodic and semantic memory retrieval.

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The team used a specialized version of fMRI that could track both blood oxygen levels and the movement of CSF in and out of the brain.

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Brain scans using fMRI reveal a similar pattern.

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Resting state fMRI measures brain activity when a person is not performing a specific task.

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