Neuroimaging/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. ^[e]
• Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]
• Imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of objects, situations or processes, even when the methods used to generate the image are outside the sensitivity of the human eye. ^[e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Medical imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of clinically relevant objects. ^[e]
• Biomedical imaging [r]: The generation of visual representations of clinically or biologically relevant objects. ^[e]
• Radiology [r]: A physician specialty with a core competence in obtaining and diagnosing by means of instruments that receive energy transmitted through the body; there are a number of subspecialties. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Computed tomography [r]: An imaging technique that computes three-dimensional representations of an object from a series of two-dimensional x-ray images. ^[e]
• Magnetic resonance imaging [r]: The use of magnetic fields and electromagnetic radiation to visualize internal structures of non-magnetic objects non-destructively. ^[e]
• Pneumoencephalography [r]: A historic neuroimaging technique based on temporarily replacing cerebrospinal fluid with a contrast agent (often simply air) to allow for sufficient soft-tissue contrast when imaging the brain with x rays; mainly used to evaluate the size of the brain ventricles which are enlarged in some neuropsychiatric diseases, e.g. in schizophrenia. ^[e]

Functional neuroimaging

• Electroencephalography [r]: A technique that records brain electrical activity non-invasively. ^[e]
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging [r]: A neuroimaging technique used to monitor task-specific blood oxygenation, primarily in the brain. ^[e]
• Positron emission tomography [r]: A medical imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. ^[e]
• Magnetoencephalography [r]: Study of cerebral function by mapping the magnetic fields associated with the electric currents generated by neuronal activity. The magnetic fields are usually detected using an array of SQUID detectors. ^[e]
• Functional transcranial Doppler sonography [r]: A neuroimaging technique in which ultrasonic energy is directed along the cerebral arteries, recording blood cell reflections and determining blood flow velocity ^[e]

Other related topics

• Nuclear medicine [r]: That medical specialty, or subspecialty, concerned with diagnosis and treatment using radioisotopes administered to the patient ^[e]
• Medical physics [r]: The study of medical problems with methods borrowed or derived from physics ^[e]
• Biomedical engineering [r]: The application of engineering principles to the study and manipulation of biological systems and to the support of health care. ^[e]
• Biophysics [r]: The study of forces and energies in biological systems. ^[e]
• Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. ^[e]
• Incidental finding [r]: The discovery of indications for pathologies in subjects that belonged to the healthy control group for a research study. ^[e]
• Default mode network of the brain [r]: Add brief definition or description
• General linear model [r]: Add brief definition or description