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Re:A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI s... by jacquesm on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:35PM (#30209887)
> The most famous would probably be the IG Nobel winning study that detected brain activity in a store-bought salmon:

A store-bought dead salmon.

I am assuming that most salmons bought in stores are dead but that particular detail is rather relevant here.

Also that had me laughing, what a great move.

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Re:A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI s... by robwwilliams on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:59PM (#30211313)
Not sure the dead salmon is relevant. That paper is focused on false discovery in FUNCTIONAL MRI. Different can of fish. Most clinical work is structural MRI.
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Re:A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI s... by jacquesm on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:09PM (#30213247)
The chances of finding brain activity in a dead salmon are a bit lower than finding it in one that is alive.
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