Seiji Ogawa
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Seiji Ogawa
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Seiji Ogawa is a Japanese biophysicist and neuroscientist known for discovering the technique that underlies Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). He is regarded as the father of modern functional brain imaging. He determined that the changes in blood oxygen levels cause its magnetic resonance imaging properties to change, allowing a map of blood, and hence, functional, activity in the brain to be created. This map reflected which neurons of the brain responded with electrochemical signa
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Japanese researcher (born 1934)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiji_Ogawa
date created:
2006-07-18T03:38:25Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:24:21Z
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