brain scanner

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brain scanner (plural brain scanners)

  1. (neuroscience) A device used to perform brain imaging.
    • 2006, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Martin R. Turner, R. Shane Delamont, The Brain: A Beginner's Guide, Oneworld Publications, published 2011, page 208:
      Fortunately all this was superseded in the 1970s, by the invention of the first brain scanner.
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