Human brown adipose tissue depots automatically segmented by positron emission tomography/computed tomography and registered magnetic resonance images

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 96, 2015, Pages

  Gifford, Aliya ^a   Towse, Theodore F ^b   Walker, Ronald C ^c   Avison, Malcolm J ^b   Welch, E Brian ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult human; Brown adipose tissue; Cold activation; Computed tomography; Fat water imaging; Fluorodeoxyglucose; Issue 96; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medicine; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADULT; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84923640221     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52415     Document Type: Article

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