MR imaging of fat. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Fat has been used in many studies on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging as the tissue of reference in comparing regional signal intensities from various tissues using different imaging parameters. This is a retrospective study of 78 patients selected to assess the influence of different factors such as age, gender, obesity, and weight loss on the T1 and T2 relaxation parameters of fat in different areas of the body. The T1 values of fat were not influenced by the factors studied or by anatomic location of the fat. The T2 values were significantly lower in patients older than 65 years and in patients with significant weight loss caused by carcinoma or chronic disease. Nevertheless, these variations were small, with considerable overlap of the mean and rather large standard deviation values. In conclusion, fat is a valuable reference tissue for MR studies and is relatively uninfluenced by the factors studied.

publication date

  • January 1, 1986

Research

keywords

  • Adipose Tissue
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0022629023

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1148/radiology.158.1.3940397

PubMed ID

  • 3940397

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 158

issue

  • 1