Automated method for accurate abdominal fat quantification on water-saturated magnetic resonance images

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 738-746

  Peng, Qi ^a   McColl, Roderick W ^b   Ding, Yao ^b   Wang, Jihong ^c   Chia, Jonathan M ^d   Weatherall, Paul T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body composition; Fat quantification; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Visceral adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY WATER; CHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

WATER;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATION; BODY WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 35248834737     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21040     Document Type: Article

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