MRI detection of brown adipose tissue with low fat content in newborns with hypothermia

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-117

  Hu, Houchun H ^a   Wu, Tai Wei ^a   Yin, Larry ^a   Kim, Mimi S ^a   Chia, Jonathan M ^b   Perkins, Thomas G ^b   Gilsanz, Vicente ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Fat signal fraction; Hypothermia; Infants; Water fat MRI

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; FAT CONTENT; FAT SIGNAL FRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; NEWBORN; NONSHIVERING THERMOGENESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TREATMENT DURATION; WATER FAT PULSE SEQUENCE; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; FAT-SIGNAL FRACTION; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANTS; WATER-FAT MRI;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 84891741382     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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