Quantification of liver fat in mice: Comparing dual-echo Dixon imaging, chemical shift imaging, and 1H-MR spectroscopy

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1847-1855

  Peng, Xin Gui ^a   Ju, Shenghong ^a   Qin, Yujiao ^a   Fang, Fang ^a   Cui, Xin ^b   Liu, George ^b   Ni, Yicheng ^c   Teng, Gao Jun ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hydrogen magnetic resonance; In vivo; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Obesity; Spin spin relaxation time T2; Triglyceride

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LIPID;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUAL ECHO DIXON IMAGING; FAT CONTENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OBESITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FATS; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; OBESITY;

EID: 80053191353     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.D016691     Document Type: Article

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