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What is a voxel in relation to magnetic resonance imaging?

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An MRI image is composed of a number of voxels; the voxel size is the spatial resolution of the image. A voxel is a 3D unit of the image with a single value, just as for digital photographs a pixel is a 2D unit of the image with a single value.

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