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Rapid Body Composition Measurements Reveal Detailed Metabolic Changes in Large Scale Population Studies

December 8, 2017 by
Body composition measurements, such as adipose tissue compartments, muscle volumes, and muscle tissue composition are increasingly important in research and clinical context. This article introduces a protocol for robust neck-to-knee Dixon VIBE-based fat and water images at 3T. [...]
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MR LiverLab

November 23, 2016 by
MR offers promising techniques for fat and iron evaluation in routine clinical liver diagnostics. This article shares the knowledge of implementing LiverLab, a comprehensive package which provides fat signal fraction (correlating with hepatic steatosis) and R2* of water (correlating with iron content). [...]
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