Whole-body MRI-based fat quantification: A comparison to air displacement plethysmography

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1437-1444

  Ludwig, Ute A ^a   Klausmann, Florian ^a   Baumann, Sandra ^a   Honal, Matthias ^a   Hövener, Jan Bernd ^a,b,c   König, Daniel ^a   Deibert, Peter ^a   Büchert, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air displacement plethysmography; Continuously moving table MRI; Dixon imaging; Fat quantification; Subcutaneous adipose tissue; Visceral adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ACCURACY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AIR DISPLACEMENT PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAT MASS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHOLE BODY MRI; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, WHOLE BODY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84910021141     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24509     Document Type: Article

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