FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does functional magnetic resonance imaging mean? 

• FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (noun)
  The noun FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING has 1 sense:

1. a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain

  Familiarity information: FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fMRI; functional magnetic resonance imaging

Hypernyms ("functional magnetic resonance imaging" is a kind of...):

magnetic resonance imaging; MRI (the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "functional magnetic resonance imaging"):

blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging; BOLD FMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation)

 Context examples 

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans were performed to examine how the brain processed these rewards.

(Study in Teens Shows Brain Responses to Rewards Linked to Pain Sensitivity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a study of human volunteers, scientists used a brain scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure localized changes in brain activation during stress.

(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)

Meanwhile, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to monitor brain activity in response to the sounds.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

Current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technologies measure neuronal activity indirectly by tracking changes in blood flow and blood oxygen levels.

(Neurons absorb and release water when firing, National Institutes of Health)

A typical day finds him reviewing results from experiments involving human brain imaging, particularly functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

The study team conducted a series of behavioral and brain imaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

(Study identifies brain patterns underlying mothers’ responses to infant cries, National Institutes of Health)

To investigate these mechanisms, the researchers studied brain patterns in 21 healthy individuals during two different tests using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow within the brain as a proxy for how active different regions are.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)