How to Use functional magnetic resonance imaging in a Sentence

functional magnetic resonance imaging

noun
  • In the second study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to look at the brain activity of 24 people after eight hours of sleep and after a night of no sleep.
    — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
  • When someone looks at an image, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans can detect changes in blood flow to regions of the brain.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But with the arrival of functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure brain activity, scientists in the last few decades have been able to study the brain activity of dyslexics.
    — Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • In a more recent variant of the experiment, scientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging to look directly at the brain of an infant reacting to photos of the mother and of a stranger.
    — James Taranto, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • In the experiment, researchers used a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging to see which parts of the participants’ brains were activated by a series of pictures.
    — Cheryl Winokur Munk, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • Thanks to a process called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists can now see the changes in brain blood flow to measure brain activity.
    — chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • To find out, scientists trained eight dogs—mostly border collies—to lie still in a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner while viewing photos of strangers with either happy or neutral expressions.
    — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The researchers put people in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and gave them the standard press-a-key-unlessyou-see-three test.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
  • In addition, the researchers analyzed the activity between and within all the neural networks of the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
  • In three different experiments, similar regions of the brain were activated when subjects admitted their minds had wandered from a task, as shown here in functional magnetic resonance imaging scans.
    — Tim Vernimmen, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2022
  • To capture the brain activity, the team used a technique called resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI).
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
  • In humans, this region lights up on a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner when numbers start to vary—a sign that cells are working hard to puzzle through the difference.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Second, the brain of each child was scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while the child listened to very short (15-second) stories.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 22 Feb. 2018
  • This all took place inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, which recorded brain activity in real time.
    — New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Of our participants, 35 agreed to be scanned with a form of brain imaging called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) both before and after the birth of their child.
    — Anthony Vaccaro, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The technique is very fast, but catches fewer details compared to the nuances of data obtained by an fMRI, or functional magnetic resonance imaging machine.
    — Ritoban Mukherjee, Quartz, 30 Jan. 2020
  • For the new research, scientists tracked changes in the brains of people who had taken psilocybin using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024
  • One very popular scanning technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) uses a large magnet to measure changes in blood flow in the brain.
    — Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The system interpreted information from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans, which detect changes in blood flow to active regions of the brain.
    — Bykamal Nahas, science.org, 7 Mar. 2023
  • So scientists take a complementary approach, called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to get at another kind of brain network.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The technique — known as functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI — allowed scientists to examine visual function more precisely than in the past.
    — Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The researchers also use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at whether playing the video game causes changes to the structure or activity of participants’ brains.
    — Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Next, the researchers repeated the experiment with six volunteers, showing each person 1000 paintings while using functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan their brains.
    — Sara Reardon, Science | AAAS, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The new findings are part of a field of research that dates back about a decade and began with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies showing that people's brains respond similarly when watching a film.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Hamilton’s own work involves, among other things, putting people in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanners to see how priming affects brain activity.
    — Tom Chivers, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The study observed 13 females and 11 males responding to tasks while inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Approaches include using optogenetics, or the use of light, to turn circuits on and off, and functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to measure and map brain activity.
    — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2021
  • On each occasion, they were fitted with a device to objectively measure arousal, given an injection and asked to watch pornography while their brains were scanned via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Over the past decade or so, however, using techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have begun to understand what happens in the brains of patients with this enigmatic illness.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The trial participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at the start of the trials and then one day after the second (25-mg) dose of psilocybin.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022

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