FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
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)
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)
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