Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
Volume 18, Issue 7, Pages 815-818Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(00)00168-5
Keywords
adipose tissue; obesity; anthropometry; body mass index
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We report a method of fast adipose tissue (FAT) assessment to characterize the quantity, and distribution of abdominal adipose tissue. Whole-volume coverage of the abdomen was obtained using 31 contiguous transverse T-1-weighted images from 16 obese females. A radiologist manually traced all adipose tissue volumes in the images, while a physiologist used an automated method to measure adipose tissue in a single image at the level of the umbilicus. Automated analysis of the umbilicus-level image was significantly correlated with values obtained by manual analysis of the entire abdomen (p < 0.001). There was good agreement between the automated umbilicus-level image method and the manual whole abdomen method for subcutaneous adipose tissue (r(2) = 0.958), visceral adipose tissue (r(2) = 0.753), and total adipose tissue (r(2) = 0.931). The automated method required 6 min vs 2 h for the manual method. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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