Validation of a fast method for quantification of intra-abdominal and subcutaneous adipose tissue for large-scale human studies

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1747-1753

  Borga, Magnus ^a,b   Thomas, E Louise ^c   Romu, Thobias ^a   Rosander, Johannes ^b   Fitzpatrick, Julie ^c   Dahlqvist Leinhard, Olof ^a,b   Bell, Jimmy D ^c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Advanced MR Analytics AB   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal fat; Adipose tissue; Dixon; Fat quantitation; MRI; Obesity

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITION; TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DIXON; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; NONRIGID IMAGE REGISTRATION; OBESITY; PEARSON CORRELATION; SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE TISSUES;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; ABDOMINAL FAT; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 84954375179     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3432     Document Type: Article

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