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fMRI

noun

Etymology

From f- + MRI.

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) visualizes the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain, which indexes neural activity.

  2. Initialism of functional magnetic resonance imager.

  3. Initialism of functional magnetic resonance image.

The neighborhood

Derived

fMRI machine, fMRI scan, fMRI scanner, fMRI scanning

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fMRI. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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