As functional magnetic
resonance imaging came into common use, researchers learned the brain was also involved.
Not exact matches
Paul Matthews, director of the Centre for Functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging of the Brain at University of Oxford, also sees lots of opportunities for skills beyond biology when it comes to i
Imaging of the Brain at University of Oxford, also sees lots of opportunities for skills beyond biology when it
comes to
imagingimaging.
Now
comes the remarkable news that neuroscientists have communicated with a man presumed to be in a vegetative state, by studying the activity in his brain with functional magnetic
resonance imaging, fMRI.
In other words, the researchers have found where our «sense of direction»
comes from in the brain and worked out a way to measure it using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI).
The breakthrough
came with a new
imaging technique, dual -
resonance - frequency - enhanced electrostatic force microscopy (DREEM), which was developed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chemist and co-author Dorothy Erie, former UNC and NC State postdoctoral researchers Dong Wu and Parminder Kaur, and was featured earlier this year in Molecular Cell.
One issue — which
comes up in all of the sciences — is how to get the clearest image out of an
imaging device such as positron emission tomography (PET) or magnetic
resonance imaging.
Poldrack reasoned that no volunteers would want to
come in twice weekly over many months to have their blood drawn and their brains scanned through magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI).
Researchers asked 21 participants to
come in for functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRIs) over 19 days.
Further myth - busting
comes from neuroimaging research techniques, such as PET (positron emission tomography) and fMRI (functional magnetic
resonance imaging) scans.