Not exact matches
The piriform cortex, meanwhile, is deep - seated in the
brain of rodents, which made it impossible to
obtain any functional
images in a living animal until now.
This novel approach — combining information
obtained simultaneously from MRI
images of the stomach, feelings reported by the subjects, and
brain scans — can offer new insights which would otherwise have been unknown, for example that activation in a
brain area called the mid-temporal gyrus seems is in some way influenced by the increased water load in this experiment.
Although MRI can be performed without contrast or enhancing agents, the addition
of such agents is often critical for
obtaining the detailed
images needed for physicians to find the precise location
of brain tumors.
Only sagittal
images of the
brain are
obtained; transverse
images are
obtained of the spinal cord.