fMRI

plural fMRIs

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of functional magnetic resonance imaging.

   I'd wanted to observe an fMRI (functional MRI) experiment.

   2018, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever — And What to Do About It, page 38

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   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

   Synonyms: fMRI scanning

2. abbreviationcountableinitialismmedicineInitialism of functional magnetic resonance imager.

   Synonyms: fMRI scanner, fMRI machine

3. abbreviationcountableinitialismmedicineInitialism of functional magnetic resonance image.

   Synonyms: fMRI scan