title: Chemical shift selective fat imaging using transition into driven equilibrium balanced steady-state free precession for quantification of adipose tissue.
abstract: The amount and distribution of adipose tissue are important risk factors for different diseases. We present here a novel method with intrinsic water suppression (water-suppressed transition into driven equilibrium [TIDE]) and its application to healthy volunteers for fat volume and distribution evaluations. Water-suppressed TIDE revealed high image quality without artifacts, high signal-to-noise ratio of fat, and excellent suppression of water tissues, with an acquisition time of approximately 0.6 s/slice. Water-suppressed TIDE is a powerful tool for simple quantification of adipose tissue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology-Medical Physics, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. dominik.paul@uniklinik-freiburg.de
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: Gregor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leupold
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hentschel
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Baumann
authors.forename: Ute
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ludwig
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity