FMRI

abbreviation for

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

Example sentences from the Web for fmri

The fMRI scan measures blood flow in the brain, and can sense when certain areas are activated.

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And then you put them in a FMRI machine and the size of amygdalae actually shrinks, and there is tons of research like that.

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Both groups were shown the same images of food while lying in an fMRI scanner.

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Can fMRI predict when and if someone will regain consciousness after a traumatic brain injury?

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What the fMRI machine detects is the shifting proportions of oxygenated blood in any given region of the brain.

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Cultural definitions for fmri

FMRI

Abbreviation for functional magnetic resonance imaging. 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.)

notes for FMRI

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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