Quantitative proton MR techniques for measuring fat

HH Hu, HE Kan - NMR in biomedicine, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate, precise and reliable techniques for the quantification of body and organ fat
distributions are important tools in physiology research. They are critically needed in studies …

Assessment of abdominal adipose tissue and organ fat content by magnetic resonance imaging

HH Hu, KS Nayak, MI Goran - obesity reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
As the prevalence of obesity continues to rise, rapid and accurate tools for assessing
abdominal body and organ fat quantity and distribution are critically needed to assist …

ISMRM workshop on fat–water separation: insights, applications and progress in MRI

HH Hu, P Börnert, D Hernando… - Magnetic resonance …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 130 attendees convened on February 19–22, 2012 for the first ISMRM‐
sponsored workshop on water–fat imaging. The motivation to host this meeting was driven …

Simultaneous phase unwrapping and removal of chemical shift (SPURS) using graph cuts: application in quantitative susceptibility mapping

J Dong, T Liu, F Chen, D Zhou, A Dimov… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a magnetic resonance imaging technique that
reveals tissue magnetic susceptibility. It relies on having a high quality field map, typically …

Water–fat Dixon cardiac magnetic resonance fingerprinting

O Jaubert, G Cruz, A Bustin, T Schneider… - Magnetic resonance …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Cardiac magnetic resonance fingerprinting (cMRF) has been recently introduced to
simultaneously provide T1, T2, and M0 maps. Here, we develop a 3‐point Dixon‐cMRF …

Multi‐parametric liver tissue characterization using MR fingerprinting: Simultaneous T1, T2, T2*, and fat fraction mapping

O Jaubert, C Arrieta, G Cruz, A Bustin… - Magnetic resonance …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Quantitative T1, T2, T2*, and fat fraction (FF) maps are promising imaging
biomarkers for the assessment of liver disease, however these are usually acquired in …

SEGUE: A speedy region-growing algorithm for unwrapping estimated phase

A Karsa, K Shmueli - IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, such as quantitative magnetic
susceptibility mapping, employ the signal phase to reveal disease-related changes in tissue …

Chemical shift encoding‐based water–fat separation methods

H Eggers, P Börnert - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The suppression of signal from fat constitutes a basic requirement in many applications of
magnetic resonance imaging. To date, this is predominantly achieved during data …

Imaging methods for analyzing body composition in human obesity and cardiometabolic disease

LA Seabolt, EB Welch, HJ Silver - … of the New York Academy of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in the technological qualities of imaging modalities for assessing human body
composition have been stimulated by accumulating evidence that individual components of …

Fat fraction mapping using magnetic resonance imaging: insight into pathophysiology

TJP Bray, MD Chouhan, S Punwani… - The British journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Adipose cells have traditionally been viewed as a simple, passive energy storage depot for
triglycerides. However, in recent years it has become clear that adipose cells are highly …