A single three dimensional "voxel" in an fMRI scan lumps together the actions of tens or even hundreds of thousands of neurons - yielding a kind of rough geography of the brain— Integral Options Cafe
Essentially, brain scanners digitally divide the scanned area into a block of tiny boxes and each one of these is called a voxel (think 3D pixel).— ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Gaser et al. (1999) developed the first voxel-based DBM approach and applied it to a large sample of schizophrenic patients and healthy controls.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
It consists of estimating an effective diffusion tensor, Deff, within a voxel, and then displaying useful quantities derived from it.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
The results show that fluid registration of 3D breast MR images to sub-voxel accuracy is possible in minutes on a 1.6 GHz Linux-based Athlon processor with coarse solutions obtainable in a few tens of seconds.— CiteULike: Everyone's library

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