Identification of an optimal threshold for detecting human brown adipose tissue using receiver operating characteristic analysis of IDEAL MRI fat fraction maps

Lower fat fraction (FF) in brown adipose tissue (BAT) than white adipose tissue (WAT) has been exploited using Dixon-based Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to differentiate these tissues in rodents, human infants and adults. We aimed to determine whether an optimal FF threshold could be determined to differentiate between BAT and WAT in adult humans in vivo.

Source: Magnetic Resonance Imaging - April 25, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Terence A. Jones, Sarah C. Wayte, Narendra L. Reddy, Oludolapo Adesanya, George K. Dimitriadis, Thomas M. Barber, Charles E. Hutchinson Source Type: research