Intramuscular adipose tissue determined by T1-weighted MRI at 3 T primarily reflects extramyocellular lipids

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 397-403

  Akima, Hiroshi ^a   Hioki, Maya ^b   Yoshiko, Akito ^b   Koike, Teruhiko ^a,b   Sakakibara, Hisataka ^b,d   Takahashi, Hideyuki ^c   Oshida, Yoshiharu ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extramyocellular lipids; Image analysis; Intramuscular adipose tissue; Intramyocellular lipids; Spin echo sequence; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ECHO INTENSITY; EXTRAMYOCELLULAR LIPID; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR ADIPOSE TISSUE; INTRAMYOCELLULAR LIPID; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HAMSTRING MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; THIGH;

LIPID;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; AGED; FEMALE; HAMSTRING MUSCLES; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; THIGH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960904516     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2015.12.038     Document Type: Article

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