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As an approach to visualize the central nervous system (CNS), neuroimaging consists of various methods to image the brain. The methods can be generally categorized by the degree of invasiveness, by the brain features to be quantified (e.g. brain structure or functions), and by the signals to be detected (e.g. neural activity or cerebral flow). A brief introduction of the methods is summarized in the following sections, and more detailed mechanisms are discussed in Chapter 2.