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fMRI en · NOUN

Etymology

From f- + MRI.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of functional magnetic resonance imaging.
    • fMRI has not been carried out yet in the group of paedophilia or other paraphiliae. Given the much better spatial and in particular higher temporal resolution it may be the tool of preference. 2008, Raymond C. Browne, Forensic Psychiatry Research Trends, page 125:
    • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) visualizes the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain, which indexes neural activity. 2015: Vogt, Nina (December 2015). "fMRI goes individual". Research Highlights. Nature Methods 12 (12): 1112. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3677
    • The women underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow that happen with brain activity, while being shown images of their grandchild, another child they didn’t know, an adult they didn’t know, and the same-sex parent of their grandchild. 2021 November 19, Madeline Holcombe, “Is your mom warmer with her grandkids than with you? A new study says blame biology”, in CNN:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of functional magnetic resonance imager.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of functional magnetic resonance image.

Forms

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Deriveds

fMRI scanning · fMRI scanner · fMRI scan · fMRI machine

Hypernyms

radiography · MRI machine · MRI scan · MRI · MRI scanner · MRI · radiograph · MRI scanning · radiogram · MRI

Relateds

functional · MRI · fluoroscopy

Synonyms

functional MRI · fMRI machine · fMRI scan · fMRI scanner · fMRI scanning