Abdominal fat: Standardized technique for measurement at CT

Radiology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 283-286

  Yoshizumi, Tohru ^a   Nakamura, Tadashi ^b   Yamane, Mitsukazu ^b   Waliul Islam, Abdul Hasan M ^b   Menju, Masakazu ^a   Yamasaki, Kouichi ^a   Arai, Takeshi ^b   Kotani, Kazuaki ^b   Funahashi, Tohru ^b   Yamashita, Shizuya ^b   Matsuzawa, Yuji ^b  

^a Minon City Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdomen, anatomy; Computed tomography (CT), tissue characterization; Fat, CT

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; VISCERA;

EID: 0032950793     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.211.1.r99ap15283     Document Type: Article

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