Neuroimaging Data Processing/Glossary
BOLD edit
blood-oxygen-level-dependent
EPI edit
(gradient-echo) echoplanar imaging
fMRI edit
functional magnetic resonance imaging
MRI edit
magnetic resonance imaging
rotation edit
turning the entire image around an axis in space: x-y, x-z, y-z (in the absence of translation)
TE edit
echo time
TR edit
repetition time
translation edit
moving the entire image volume along an axis in space: x-,y-, and z-axes (in the absence of rotation)
volume edit
one 3-dimensional image, i.e., one timepoint in a 4-dimensional fMRI image
voxel edit
one 3-dimensional unit (length × width × height) in a 3-dimensional image (analogous to a pixel in a 2-dimensional image)