Editing History of neuroimaging (section)

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[[Neuroimaging]] is a medical technique that allows doctors and researchers to take pictures of the inner workings of the body or brain of a patient. It can show areas with heightened activity, areas with high or low blood flow, the structure of the patients brain/body, as well as certain abnormalities. Neuroimaging is most often used to find the specific location of certain diseases or birth defects such as tumors, cancers, or clogged arteries. Neuroimaging first came about as a medical technique in the 1880s with the invention of the human circulation balance and has since lead to other inventions such as the [[x-ray]], air ventriculography, [[cerebral angiography]], [[Positron emission tomography|PET]]/SPECT scans, [[magnetoencephalography]], and [[xenon]] CT scanning.