voxel

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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).

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  • 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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