Development of a high-precision image-processing automatic measurement system for MRI visceral fat images acquired using a binomial RF-excitation pulse

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 520-526

  Nakai, Ryusuke ^a   Azuma, Takashi ^a   Kishimoto, Taizou ^b   Hirata, Tazuko ^b   Takizawa, Osamu ^c   Hyon, Suong Hyu ^a   Tsutsumi, Sadami ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Wacoal Corp   (Japan)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic measurement; Binominal pulse; Fat; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY FAT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AUTOMATION; EXERCISE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952291643     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.12.019     Document Type: Article

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