Assessment of abdominal adipose tissue and organ fat content by magnetic resonance imaging

Obesity Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Hu, H H ^a   Nayak, K S ^a   Goran, M I ^b  

^a Viterbi School of Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Body fat quantification; MRI; Organ fat

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGAN FAT; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 79955021088     PISSN: 14677881     EISSN: 1467789X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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