Neuroimaging Data Processing/Glossary
BOLDEdit
blood-oxygen-level-dependent
EPIEdit
(gradient-echo) echoplanar imaging
fMRIEdit
functional magnetic resonance imaging
MRIEdit
magnetic resonance imaging
rotationEdit
turning the entire image around an axis in space: x-y, x-z, y-z (in the absence of translation)
TEEdit
echo time
TREdit
repetition time
translationEdit
moving the entire image volume along an axis in space: x-,y-, and z-axes (in the absence of rotation)
volumeEdit
one 3-dimensional image, i.e., one timepoint in a 4-dimensional fMRI image
voxelEdit
one 3-dimensional unit (length × width × height) in a 3-dimensional image (analogous to a pixel in a 2-dimensional image)