| Comparison of visceral adipose tissue quantification on water suppressed and nonwater-suppressed MRI at 3.0 tesla. | |
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PMID: 22246813 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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PURPOSE: To systematically evaluate and compare the performance of water-saturated and nonwater-saturated T1-weighted 3.0 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the application of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) quantification. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-five patients underwent abdomen MRI using two different sequences at 3.0 T: 1) a traditional T1-weighted gradient echo sequence, and 2) the same sequence with water presaturation to enhance fat and nonfat contrast. VAT amounts from both water-saturated and nonwater-saturated images were quantified with a manual thresholding technique and an automated segmentation method to study quantification variability and consistency of the two imaging techniques. RESULTS: Nonwater-saturated MRI had significantly larger coefficient of variation than water-saturated MRI in the imaging reproducibility study based on 112 slices from seven subjects (11.4% vs. 2.5%, P < 0.0001). VAT volumes measured from the nonwater-saturation MRI sequence had significantly higher variability than those from water-saturation images even when using a manual quantification method based on images from 38 subjects (1.76% vs. 1.08%, P < 0.001). In addition, the VAT volume amounts from nonwater-saturation images and water-saturated images quantified with the automatic and manual quantification methods were statistically consistent. CONCLUSION: Water-saturated MRI sequences at 3.0 T for VAT quantification improve reproducibility and decrease variability compared with nonwater saturated sequences, especially with the use of automatic quantification methods. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2012;. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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Anqi Zhou; Horacio Murillo; Kenneth Cusi; Qi Peng |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-1-13 |
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Title: Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI Volume: - ISSN: 1522-2586 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-1-16 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9105850 Medline TA: J Magn Reson Imaging Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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Department of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA. |
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